Response to brief

The brief I have chosen to do is the Print brief. The description reads as follows; "Preliminary exercise: using DTP and an image manipulation program, produce the front page of a new school/college magazine, featuring a photograph of a student in medium close-up plus some appropriately laid-out text and a masthead. Additionally candidates must produce a DTP mock-up of the layout of the contents page to demonstrate their grasp of the program. Main task: the front page, contents and double page spread of a new music magazine (if done as a group task, each member of the group to produce an individual edition of the magazine, following the same house style). Maximum four members to a group. All images and text used must be original, produced by the candidate(s), minimum of FOUR images per candidate."
www.ocr.org.uk/ My initial thoughts on doing a music magazine are between the rock music magazines and rap, however through some consideration I have chosen to go through with the rap genre. I have chosen this because I really enjoy listening to this and find I can really relax when listening to it. Also I feel that there is always something to be added to the rap world and that I can be really original about it. On first consideration the target audience I am aiming for is the 18 to roughly 30 age group, working class and those which have a genuine love for rap. From looking through some other media texts I have noticed that "XXL" www.xxlmag.com/  has a slightly more appealing look about it.