the mission statement

Create a mission statement for your music magazine.
read the example for the women magazine "frank" and develop the following ideas for your own magazine;

• explain what kind of music magazine you hope to create by focusing on genre and style.
• explain the audience that you are trying to target.
• give a brief overview of the content of your magazine
• Describe the tone and attitude of your magazine
• explain the role that you think your magazine will play in the lives of its readers

The kind of music magazine I'm hoping to create is a hip hop/ rap magazine where i focusing on hip hop culture, i will be copying the layout and style of the magazine as well as the images used. I will try and recreate the images used by copying the clothing and mise-en-scene. i will also be copying the fonts used and type of language used that relates to hip hop/ rap culture. The type of audience I will be targeting will range from 16-35 because due to hip hop / rap culture, sometime using inappropriate language to describe their lifestyle etc. The content of my magazine will include interview from different artists talking about hip hop and how they went from 'rags to riches' and will include upcoming songs and new artists making a debut to the hip hop/ rap world. The tone and attitude of my magazine will be mainly focusing on the life style of the artists  and how they used hip hop/ rap to get out of poverty and how they described through lyrics. The role that my magazine will play to my readers will try to inspire them if they are in a rough situation or struggling in life, my magazine will play a role of readers reading about different artists and what they're music is about and how they try to relate with the readers of how they can be ambitious to have the same lifestyle as the artists on my magazine.

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finished contents and front cover

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contents page

Chosen genre for music magazine

I have decided to stick to my research and choose hip hop genre for my music magazine because it attracted me, the disadvantage of this is that not much of this type of magazine is on shop shelf so it would make my research reasonably hard and this type of genre is mostly in america.

music magazine research

For my magazine research I have chosen to do hip hop or street magazine, but before fully deciding on it, I'm gonna carry out research on other magazine genres. After deciding on what genre of music i want to do, i can use this as a template when i create my own magazine. I can copy color schemes and fonts and how they structure there cover lines etc.

the fonts used for Hip hop magazines/albums is usually bold and thick fonts in either black or bright colors  usually black and red. The contents page of a hip hop magazine is usually plain and there usually be big bold writings in black and red. The contents page does not give the full story of the cover lines but however gives a little information to make the readers curious and intrigued. The layouts of the front cover of hip hop magazines tends to be a mid shot of the artist posing in a unique way, the masthead us usually located on top of their head in big bold colors.Although you cant say all hip hop magazines use the same color schemes. For example, vibe magazine uses different colors for the front cover to various artists like in the front covers shown below.

However all music magazines have the same codes and conventions as any other magazine, they all have a big masthead but can be in different font or colors and have a unique and snappy main cover line that relates to the image. However music magazines are different from other magazines because they use a different language to relate with their target audience.