Main Task: FC, CP, DPS Mock Ups

Front Cover Mock-Ups

Content Page Mock-Ups

Double Page Spread Mock-Ups

Main Task: Mood Board

This Is my Hip-Hop mood board as you would be able to see I designed this
to interpret the two sides of the genre. On the right side it can be demoted
that there are women, cars and money which is the normal perception of
Hip-Hop and on the other hand is the other more colourful, vibrant and unique
side of the genre. Even though though there are two sides to Hip-Hop I still
love the genre shown by the heart that connotes love and passion which I have for
the genre and the wings connoting hope and glory showing that even though it is
not as mainstream as pop it is still glorious.

Main Task: Case Study of a Publishing House

Main Task: Profilling Your Audience

This task requires me to profile my representative target audience and allowing me to explore what my target audience is interested in, what they do in there spare times and also there influences.

The reader of my magazine: Corey is 19 lives and breathes hip-hop: It informs his choice of friends as most of them familiarise themselves with this culture, his hobbies, leisure time, attitudes, fashion sense and lifestyle are also influenced by this. He engages with this type of music when he has free time or is studying. When he is not listening to music or watching music TV,
he is talking to his friends about music , attending concerts, playing video games or in the classroom. He is passionate, sharp, has a strong moral code & rejoices in his individuality.
He is fashion trend setter in his peer groups but he is also influenced by musical icons.

Corey loves to wear snapbacks and this was due to Tyga ft Chris Brown - Snapback Back. This shows that Corey loves to follow Hip-Hop trendinging fashions allowing him to feel closer to his favourite artists.

Tyga - Snapbacks Back feat Chris Brown

Corey Also dives into the genre of Alternative Hip-Hop he mostly listens to this when he is training in basketball or playing call of duty or other first person shooters and also skateboarding which he attempts sometimes. This point is that he can divert into "Young Hip-Hop" and not always the stenotype of Guns, Money and Girls.

New Boyz - Tough Kids feat. Sabi

Corey is a confident and ready to express his self kind of guy one of his other hobbies is watching funny YouTube videos at home (especially funny ones like below)

Warning! Some Swearing

Steven Jo Does Cinnamon Challenge!

He has a wide variety of artists he listens to and is not stuck on one. The way he looks and his swag is showing his identity to the world.

In Conclusion I found that this task helped me to understand my target Audience better it also allowed me to pinpoint all the detail that I may not have thought about before like having to think what kind of hobbies my target audience take part in, this is going to help me with the content include in magazine and not only that I will be able to take these skills along with me helping me in similar tasks.

Main Task: Audience Research

I am conducting some audience Research this is so that I can find out from my potential readers how they may want my magazine to look like and allowing me to obtain a certain feel my audience want from my magazine. I am going to me targeting my magazine at the "Young generation" I can conduct that my magazine is likely to target Teenage Males and Men and making them more likely to buy the magazine this is why I ended up asking more males than females. However, I do think that the older generation and women will buy it and this could be because of things like competitions and freebies.

These are the questions I asked to my potential target audience as these were the areas that I was looking for answers In to help with the development of my Front Page, Contents Page & Double Page spread (The Main Tasks)


Question 1
Who is your favourite artist?

Question 2
When you read magazine what do u look for like events gossip

Question 3
What colours do u think go together

Question 4
What type of font do you like?

Question 5
Are you more into Hip Hop, R n B or grime?


The data that I collected allowed me to get a notion of the kind of artists I should Include in my magazine from Drake to Frank Ocean and even to Wiz Khalifa. Some of these artist I may feature on my magazine giving the target audience what they want allowing my magazine to me successful amongst my chosen target audience.

My market audience also allowed me me to gain and understand  that the majority of my target audience like Hip-Hop because of this I am considering of creating a Hip-Hop based music magazine for my main task. This is good for me as like explained in my introduction I myself am a Hip Hop fan.

As of colour I learned that from the research the colour combo of black & red came up quite a bit, because of this I am also going to consider this. Knowing that my target audience prefer these colours the best is pushing me use the colours the more but If I am going to do this I will add maybe one or two more colours to add flavour to the feel of the magazine.

 The next thing that I discussed with the target audience was the fonts there was mixed feelings about this some wanted ones that stood out such as 'Impact'(sans-serif) and others wanted joined up writing (serif) this allows me to uses a mix and match in magazine so it can appeal to both.

Conducting this Market Research gave me a good Idea of what my target audience wants, this is going to make it easier for me to create FP/CP/DPS- FInals more easily as I have done the research allowing me to start faster and be more efficiently an the pages. Knowing this information has given a rough idea of what my magazine would look like allowing me to know what to draw in my mock-ups.