Unit 13 – Planning and Pitching a Print based Media Product - Proposal

Name: William Eze

Candidate Number: 1118

Centre Number: 64315

Format: TRAP will be making a music magazine based on rap music, rap and R ‘N’ B

Working Title: My title of my magazine is going to be called TRAP, which connotes that it is a magazine, which documents the golden era of rap music and the tributes to the legends behind its movement.

Genre:The sub-genre for my music magazine is a mixture of hip-hop & r’n’b and I will be aiming for an audience who are mainly young adults and older. My magazine will be able to compete with other hip-hop magazine such as XXL. because all three magazines over a service to the rock music genre and are all focused on heavy Content:The name of sub-genre entitled ‘TRAP’ magazine will be full of pictures, articles, album reviews and song lyrics, which will contain ‘star appeal’ to the audience (Richard Dyer) as it attracts the reader. The publication will also feature artists that are generally independent and aim to be the top stars in the industry.

Style or Approach:

The denotation of the colour scheme for the magazine front cover will consist of red, white and black. The colour red was chosen for TRAP because it works well with my other house style colours, which are white & black. Also, it’s a colour that represents the rap community. I am going to use Photoshop to construct the magazine pages (Front Cover and Double Page Spread)

Unit 13 – Planning and Pitching a Print based Media Product - Proposal

because it is a useful program, which I can use to edit & design my magazine. Some of the tools in Photoshop that will be good for use in making my front cover will be the text tool, & the cropping tool as well as the grid.

Audience:

The audience is going to be primarily male but could include some females. They will mainly be around 16-18+ in general although some might be older and a few maybe be younger. There will be people of any ethnicity reading my magazine. Music is what they always listen to so this would be good for them. Length:There will be a lot of content as the pages are about 48 sheets long so it would contain a lot of useful news and recent updates on the changing of the music industry. He size of the magazine will be A4 so I can fit as much content as possible

Frequency:

Monthly as it includes more content for the fans of my music magazine. Cost: £3.50