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Page 1: Draft Pitch, Style Sheet, Photography Research and Flat Plan

Draft Pitch, Style Sheet, Flat Plan and

Photography Planning

Page 2: Draft Pitch, Style Sheet, Photography Research and Flat Plan

PitchName of magazine: Rap Nation The title of the magazine works well in telling the target audience what the magazine is about and what music genre it focuses on. This will work well and will grab the target audiences attention immediately as they are interested in the front cover and this will make them look further into the magazine.

Music Genre: Rap/Hip Hop I have chosen this genre of music because in my research it seemed one of the most popular genres of music; in my survey it got 36% of the votes.

Target Audience: 16-24 The type of person that would read my magazine is mainly someone with the ethnicity of black (British) as the genre of music within the magazine is has a defined black male audience. I have discovered this from the research I have done. However it will also be aimed at other ethnicity’s as well but the black (British) is the main one. Within my survey I discovered that 36% of the audience that took the survey enjoyed rap/hip hop music the most. The artists that are a part of this music genre reflect the audience, a way the artists reflect to the audience are that they are both male and black. The main artists I think of when focusing on rap/ hip hop music is 50 Cent, Biggie Smalls, 2Pac, etc.

Price: £2 The price of my magazine is quite low compared to other magazines as my target audience are mainly students or only have a part time job and do not have a large disposable income. As the audience may not be as willing to spend their disposable income on the magazine I have decided to make the magazine price available to most people of this age group therefore they will be willing to spend a small amount of their disposable income on the magazine. They NRS social grade abc1 tells me that this target audience will have a disposable income from their part time jobs, etc.

Frequency of publication: Biweekly Having one magazine published biweekly will make the target audience commit to buying the magazine as they wont have to spend a lot of money therefore they will be willing to be a committed customer. Also successful magazines such as Rolling Stone and Cosmopolitan magazine also publish their magazine biweekly.

Structure: I am going to take inspiration from the rolling stones magazine as I think that the magazine’s layout is interesting and clear for the reader and this will work well. The rolling stones magazine has around 80 pages, so I will make mine the same as both magazines are going to be published/ are published biweekly.

Sample Article Ideas: • Interview with celebrities • Top 20 in the charts• Posters• The celebrity fashion• New music to come out

These are interesting magazine article ideas as there is a variety of different things too look at and this will keep the target audience interested and will bring them back to buy the magazine regularly

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Flat Plan

Front Cover Contents Page Double Page Spread

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Style SheetFont

Colours I am going to use are black and white I have used these colours as I think they are easy basic colours and any colour will mix with them and work well.

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Photography planning – front pageThe image for my front cover will be an image I have taken myself of one of my friends. My friend has the right look I need for my magazine as he has a similar dress sense to the celebrities I am looking at. He wears baggy jeans and t-shirts with a hat/bandana and a gold chain necklace with trainers. I am going to take the photos of my front cover model in the photography studio as I think this will give it a more professional and sophisticated look. Underneath I have taken an image from the magazine I am going to inspire the look of for my magazine and sectioned it into a grid. This shows a good composition for the magazine and I am going to use this grid to help me put my images and text into the right places so it also looks as professional as this magazine front cover. I am going to have the person I am using to be on my front cover posed and in the studio so it looks like they have been taken professionally and will look effective on the front cover. I want the image for my front cover to be either a medium long shot, or a medium close up. The person I am taking images of is going to be a made up celebrity and only has to be influenced by these celebrities to have the right look for my magazine.

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Photography planning – contents pageI plan on having 3 images on the contents page to help to show the different stories in the magazine. The first image will be of the main celebrity (the same person on the front cover) who will have the same clothes on to the front cover image but will a different pose for example a long shot with the whole body in the photo as shown in the Chris Brown photo below. These images will also be taken in the photography studio as there will be a white background and will have the correct lighting, I also want a clean cut style photo so it looks more professional and like it is out of a real magazine. The second photo will have relations to a different story also in the magazine. The photo will be of a ‘made up’ celebrity and will have photos done to make them look professional and the story line will be of the new album/track coming out. The photo will be a mid shot of the artist. For example, the image of 50 Cent at the bottom is a mid shot and this is what my image will look like for this story. I may try to find a different background for this image to try and find a more stereotypical ‘gangsta’ background. I will use a natural light to take the image. The person in the photo will also be wearing similar clothes to the person on the front cover just slightly different props to show that they are two different people.The third image on the contents page will be of another ‘made up’ celebrity. The shot for this celebrity will be a close up like the photo of Eminem in the corner. The person in this photo will just wear a plain vest and a gold chain with a bulky ring. This will emphasise the look of the rap/hip hop artist look and will help to show the genre of the magazine to the readers. I will have a plain black background for this image so this image will be taken in the studio.

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Photography planning – double page spread

For the double page spread my photos are going to be of the person that is on my front cover and on my contents page. They’re going to be two images on the double page spread of the same person in different poses. I am going to take these photos in the photography studio with a white background to show that the magazine has had a full photo shoot with the celebrity in question. The celebrity will wear all the same clothes throughout the photo shoot but different poses to show the different images and also to make sure they are not all the same images so it doesn’t get boring for the reader. The photo at the bottom of T-Pain works well as he has a signature pose that he uses in his image making it clear that it is him in the photo. I may get my person I am photographing to do a pose similar to this. Also I am going to get the person I am photographing to take the pose of 50 Cent in the bottom left corner for my second image as this will work well as there will be a variety of shots for the audience to look at.

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• Altogether I will have to take 6 images for my magazine.• The location for my images will be the photography studio.• The costumes worn for my images will be: 1. Baggy jeans, baggy t-shirt, trainers, hat/bandana and gold chain. (front cover, contents page and double

page spread)2. Vest, gold chain and bulky ring (contents page).3. Baggy t-shirt and hat/bandana (contents page).• Type of shots I will use are:1. Medium long shot (front cover), long shot (contents page) and close up.(contents page + double page

spread)2. Medium close up (contents page).3. Close up (contents page).

Photography planning – Summery