Last lesson.

My last media studies lesson was a very unproductive hour towards my work, the computers were down and I couldn't sign in to get at my work or get online to analyse any other work for research. To make up for this I had to spend a few hours at home researching into the front page which I was analysing. I caught up with the work that I was doing and I am now beginning to analyse a contents page.

Second thoughts!

A change of heart with 2 other class mates has resulted in the three of us teaming up. Their names are Kyra-Mai Green and Alex Bowles. Collectively we have decided to shift the genre to the middle of which genres we all wanted to, and ended up doing R&B. Kyra wanted to do Urban whilst Alex and I wanted to do hip-hop/rap so the compromisation was to get as close to the middle of these as possible. As the genre stayed fairly close to the original one that I wanted to do, the target audience has stayed the same.

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.