Final Article

Interview With Grim

This is the article on word but it will be inserted onto a double page spread but i just wanted to show you what the final article is about. I am very happy with the article i wrote as i made it interested, different and overall good therefore its perfect for the double page spread.

Idea For Article

As i have got my pictures i had to chose now what the article is going to be about. I am going to put this picture on the front cover:

This will be on the front cover of course it will have been edited on photoshop and put in background with the rest of the front cover over it but it made me think; if you look at the photo closely it has so much emotion in it and as he is meant to be famous it made me think of a really good idea. My idea was to have a interview article which has the heading 'Life Is Not All That Easy Being Famous', this would be easy to write a article too and also a original idea for a magazine therefore making it overall better and different meaning more audience want to read it.

This idea in my view was perfect for the magazine as the picture reflexes to stress and is a very good photo shot. I decided then this is what my article will be about and standard interview which will ask him about his famous life which is more interesting that most double page spread articles. The set out of it i decided to be the interviews writing in a different colour to 'grim' therefore making it easier to read throughout and look more professional. This is the idea i am going with for the article and overall very happy with what i thought of :).

Questions I Will Use For Article

I had to choice some questions which grim would be asked in the double page spread. This questions had to be effective and be overall good. Here are the questions i have picked for the double page spread:

So Grim how’s life at the moment?

But surely being famous is good; being rich having everything you want?

Who are you aiming at that don’t leave you alone?

When you say ‘argument’s’ what do you mean I.e like who with? (question already be planned)

But surely it is not all bad being famous?

Do you also can a lot of haters in this lifestyle?

If you could change something in your life now what would it be?

These are all the questions which will be asked. I am very happy with my chose of questions they are open questions so grim can talk move about it making the magazine more interesting. 

Uploading the Photos

This is the phone which I used throughout taking photos for my magazine. It allowed me to be able to take pictures to a high quality and showed everything of my process making the magazine etc. overall gave me images which i could upload with ease and straight up to the computer therefore saving me time.

This was with me at all times so if i needed to take a photo at a random time i could just take my blackberry out and then upload it straight to blogspot; made everything so much easier for me at this aspect.

Test Shots For Magazine

These were the shots i took for my magazine and i had to try different shots within it which allowed me to see which shots looked good or bad. Giving me a variation of choice making it overall a better picture as i would of experimented.

These were the shots i took for the front cover of the magazine as you see i got some ideas from different hip-hop magazines which i found on the Internet etc. I wanted to test what i will look like in a shirt and tie to give it that effect of them being rich and classy; i loved the way it came across as i seen in within other magazine therefore i thought i wanted to see what it would look like on me. I also had a very serious and angry shot on there this is because i seen a magazine which showed anger of the artist and it was effective as it had so much emotion in the picture that's what i tried to catch in the pictures i took; also it gives that sort of gangster feel to the magazine and most hip-hop artist see them-self's as the 'hard' man etc. I had some cheeky smiles on some shots as well because i seen again a example of a magazine which has t.i smiling and it had the effect of happiness which came across to the audience by them just looking at the photo. My favorite photo overall was the last 1 we took of him having his head down with his hand on his head with the shirt and tie on; that picture to me created a lot of emotion of stress and allowed my thoughts to go on to what could be the title and be in the article; for example i thought something like 'being famous ain't so easy' and allowed my thoughts to widen that is why i loved that picture out of the rest.

Audience Profile

Audience

This is my audience profiling and it describes some key factors about the target audience which are for my genre of music. I covered the made titles and information explaining there lifestyles, age, gender etc.  All this put together shows are target audience for the audience who will buy our magazine.

Feedback From Pitch

I needed to get feedback from the 25 word pitch i did for my project. For this i thought it would be best to hand out a easy and simple 5 question questionnaire to everyone in the class which allows me to see what they liked about the pitch and what they think i should improve on with the ideas i talked about.

Here the questionnaire i gave them and il put the results underneath the questionnaire:

25 Word Pitch Feedback Questionnaire

As you see i kept it simple so the audience don't mind filling it out and also so it makes it easier to see if my pitch was successful or a fail. Overall i'm very happy with my questionnaire as all the questions i wanted to know are on there and written out on a easy to read and understand form.

Answers to the questionnaire:

We asked 20 people within the class to give us answers to all of the questions which we gave them in the questionnaire above here are the results we got back:

Questionnaire Response From the Audience

25 Word Pitch

Create your own video slideshow at animoto.com.

in this i just kept to what i will do .. for example i just said about bling looks how they dress and money and just labeled the key factors this will all be key for my magazine as it will include all these things to make it fit the hip-hop culture. i kept it simple and not complex so the audience can see what hip-hop is about :).

Information For 25 Word Pitch

With finding the information for my 25 word pitch all i needed to do was search my topic areas. I new what they all meant as i listen to hip-hop anyway and its my genre of music therefore i new whats it is all about. I researched:

Swagga

Money

Clothes

Bling

image

All these are key to what a hip-hop magazine is about. I new what they all meant already so i did not have to do much research around the topic area just had to point out the main bits from it. This all put together with some pictures made the 25 word pitch. This was quite easy for me as i new the genre very very well as i have listen and read magazines on this type of music for years therefore making my knowledge great on this subject. With all this information i had i just inserted pictures and then my pitch was all ready to be set up :). 

Market Research

i researched into market research for my type of music. It seems to me that it is all about the image of the artist and if he has money, clothes, cars and gets girls he has got that perfect hip-hop culture image. To sell magazines in this genre you need to show this throughout the magazine. It always has to show the artist looking good and having that sense of 'swagga'.

I knew straight away which genre of music i wanted to do for my magazine, mainly because it’s my favorite genre, which is Hip-Hop. i had many clear ideas of what i wanted to do but all very different. I had totally different ideas therefore i needed to ask my mates, teachers and target audience to find out which was the best ideas. The target age for Hip-Hop is around 16– 25 years ago. This works out well for me as that’s my age range and all have many friends in that age range which i then asked for their thoughts about my ideas. We are aiming the magazine at 16-25 year olds who love hip-hop music, also probably most our target audience would be of a black race as there brought up to like this type of music; but on the other hand todays age everyones listens to different music therefore we live the target audience open to everyone.

i have spoken to a few friends to try and get there input but i didn’t think that would be enough so i decided that i would have to ask more people. i think it would be best to do some sort of questionnaire to find out exactly what the audience like in a video and see my ideas fit with the target audience likes. 

To advertise i thought i could put posters up of the magazine front cover each week in certain places; like bus stops etc this would be good because the target audience would see it around then when they see it in the shops  they would maybe look and buy the magazine. It would also spread the word of the magazine company name therefore giving it a good reputation which you need in this game; this allows the company name to become bigger and generate more fans. 

Analysis Institutions Who Will Publish My Magazine

There's a wide market for hip-hop magazines but there are some main ones which take over the whole hip-hop scene. The biggest ones are:

Vibe:

As you see this is the vibe magazine its very big in the hip-hop magazine market and is very popular with people who like to read and enjoy this type of music. If we wanted to get our magazine out there in this type of difficult market we would have to create a magazine which has better story's and looks overall better we should have a good shot in the market. We could write to them to see if they would publish are magazine and join together that is another idea.

Vibe:

Again this is big in the market for hip-hop music. Again if i wanted to join them and ask if they will be a institution which will produce my magazine and they agree it would allow me to have more contacts within the business but on a serious note i don't think they would agree to it due to the competition it may cause against there own business.

With trying to find a institution who will produce my magazine it will be very hard as a new up coming magazine is very hard to get on the market as people are so use to buying there normal vile or source therefore trying to make them come out of there normal routine is hard. Therefore with getting some to publish your magazine i believe with this you should publish it yourself and be your on institution this allows you to keep all the shares of the business and still be your own boss. Also it eliminates any problems of conflict which my of came about if you allowed someone else to publish the magazine. This overall in my view saves a lot of problems.

Title Examples And Final Title Name

I was thinking to myself about what the magazine name could be as it is a very important factor in the whole project as that title has to tell the audience it is a hip-hop magazine as well as being effective and a good name. I asked a few of my mates and we came up with a choice of 5 names:

-Swag
-Observation
-Hip-Hop
-Say no more
-Musik

I thought long and hard about these name choices and i started to eliminate them 1 by 1; first of i eliminated 'Say no more' as in my view it was to long to have as a title on the magazine due to the fact titles of magazine are normal short and easy to read therefore catching the audience attention better. I then thought about 'observation' and decided that name was invalid to what i was doing as it sounds more like a house magazine etc then a hip-hop magazine therefore i decided to get rid of that idea from the name choices. I then thought about the title 'swag' i did like this name but i just thought it sounded about 'chavy' and would not draw some of are target audience to come read it therefore i decided to get rid of that name as well. So i was down to the last 2 names and thinking straight i did not want a average normal name i wanted a name which was different therefore not simple; so i picked 'Musik' to be my title name as it is different and it catches the audience eye as it is not spelt normally therefore making them come read it; It also is good because it can attract any type of music listener over as it does not just make the magazine sound like its focused on just hip-hop therefore it could attract audience members which are not even our target audience/market therefore making it overall much better.

I'm very happy with my title name and made sure i researched the names before i just jumped straight into naming it therefore it shows i planned it all and took my time.

Final Title Logo For My Magazine

This is the logo of the title which will be on the magazine front cover. I chose to make it different so it made it stand out from all the other hip-hop magazine; the logo is set out so it catches the audience eyes with the different colours i inserted into it. I did this on photoshop which made it easy for me as when your use to that software it is easy and simple to use. I have the issue number above the 'sik' so when another issue comes out we change that number therefore if people collect the magazines they can keep them in order etc. Overall i'm very happy with my logo and it stands out, its unique and it just looks overall professional. This is good as well because the audience will remember this logo so if the magazine was good and they want the next issue they will see that logo on the next magazine and buy it due to that they remembered the logo from the front cover of the last magazine.

Double Page Spread Font Analysis

I don't really like the the fonts on this double page spread at all; They have only used 2 different types of fonts and picked the worst colours for the text to have; red mixed with white on a black background is terrible and just looks horrible in my view. The font they use at the top for title looks really tacky and not up to a standard which you would think a professional magazine company would make. The font type which is used for the main writing is hard to understand due to the fact they put some in yellow some in white and it could confuse the reader. The fonts are all basically the same all the way through therefore making it boring as it just looks like loads of boring long essays which is not the effect you want on the audience; you want the effect that they want to read it and for them to enjoy wanted to read it not annoyed that they have to read it. I would give this double page spread out of 10 for its use of fonts 4/10.