Initial ideas

Before i started anything on my music magazine front cover i took the photos that i would include on my front cover. I took approximatly 20 photos and then chose four photos that i would include on my magazine front cover. When i took the photos i tried to have the people i was taking photos of looking at the camera with a stern and maybe even mean look, or for some of the other photos i took i had them put their heads down or put their hoods up. By doing this i was creating a stereotypical charachter that you would usually see on the front of a hip-hop or rap magazine front cover. The ideas i had for front cover were to have the skyline of a city in the background of my front cover with my main images over the top. the reason i did this was to really promote the fact that in my double page spread i explain how my band are doing really well and blowing apart the music scene, I the pictures of my band over a image of the new york skyline this was because i also explain how the band are blowing apart the US music scene. The ideas i had for my magazine front cover was to create a fairly dark looking and fairly mean magazine by doing this i hoped to create a magazine that would attract my inteded audience, they would be male and between the ages of 15-30 who ovbliously enjoy grime/hip-hop music.