Evaluation

As media evaluation from Isaac Jones

Proposal

Proposal

For our task we were asked to create a music magazine on any genre of music. Our magazine must contain a front cover, contents page and a double page spread. These were the minimum requirements, even though we are only doing a double page spread, inside the magazine we must put in a full contents page to show we understand what will need to go into the magazine if we were doing other pages.

For my magazine I decided to do a "don’t flop" rap battle magazine. The reason for this is because there isn’t anything at all like this on the market at the moment. Don’t flop is a YouTube channel who arguably take some of the best rapper and battle rappers there is from the UK, Europe even the USA and make the two of them battle. I thought it would be a good idea to create a magazine on this because on you tube, the views and channel subscribers don’t flop has is un real, so creating a magazine for this would catch their attention and a lot would probably subscribe to the magazine so the profit would be good and also all the fans will be up to date, which is important. I have got my magazine lay out from the magazine vibe, I like the whole way they set out their magazines and I can base my lay out on theirs. The things I like about the lay out is especially on the front cover, the way the whole title doesn’t need to be shown because the image of the artist is more important due to the fact everyone will know what the magazine is. I also like the way that the colours contrast and complement each other well. The mid-shot of the artist on the front cover is the most dominant image on the page, what they’re wearing corresponds with the colour scheme of the front cover, this looks good because everything fits together and looks smart together. These aspects will be displayed in my magazine because this is how I want my front cover to be set out.

As my model I will use my friend and class mate Liam Lindsay. I will be taking a mid-shot photo of him posing. He will need to look arrogant and like he is the best. The reason for this is because this is how the rapper looks in the magazines for vibe and other rap magazines. As I said before I like the style of the Vibe magazine and due to this I am going to base most aspects of my magazine on it, including the attributes of the artist/band in the front cover photo. What he is wearing on the front cover, the text will correspond to. I have chosen this particular model because he isn’t somebody who looks like he is into rap battling type of music; however he dresses and looks cool the way he does dress. I believe this will give a new angle to the rap battling scene in a way. The reason being he hasn’t got your stereotypical battle rapper dress sense.

The equipment I will be using to capture and edit these pictures is: A camera to take the actual photos, a green screen which will enable me to edit the back ground of the model easier and a computer with photo-shop CS6 to edit the photos. The props/piece of clothing I definitely want is a coat with a hood, be it a parker or casual coat, the reason for this is to emphasise the fact he doesn’t have the stereotypical dress sense of a hip-hop rap battler, I am going to take photos of him with the hood up and the hood down to give the audience two different views of the model. No make-up will be needed. I will take the photo in front of a green screen or near the woods. These are my choices and I will make that decision closer to the time of photo shoot. I will also need a computer with word processor so that I can write up and article about this rapper so that the photo is able to correspond with the text.

For my actual magazine I would like to have a colour scheme and a special issue, due to the fact that it is almost Christmas I may do a Christmas edition of my magazine. If I do this I could also do other events not quite as big as Christmas but things like St. Patricks day etc. For each one I could use a different colour scheme of colours that correspond with the day that the issue is based on. For example if it did happen to be St. Patrick’s day I could use the colour’s predominantly green, white and orange due to the fact that is to do with Ireland.