start of main task - 'My music CD'. creating a mixtape for research.

I am creating this mixtape of some of my favourite songs as part of my research into creating the music magazine. this research will help me discover my favourite genre of music which i can then base my music magazine on.

My Music CD

1.     Lil Wayne – A Milli Rap/RnB

2.     The Script ft B.o.B – Walk Away RnB

3.     Devlin – Marching Through The Fog Grime

4.     Eminem – 25 to life Rap

5.     Lil Wayne ft. Cory Gunz – 6”7’ Rap/RnB

6.     Lil Wayne – Bill Gates Rap/RnB

7.     Devlin – Brainwashed Grime

8.     Akala – Shakespeare Rap

9.     The Script – the man that cant be moved Indie/Rock

10. Sean Kingston ft B.o.B – hope is a river RnB

11. Tinie Tempah – Miami 2 Ibiza RnB

12. Tinie Tempah – let go RnB

13. Kanye West ft Jay-Z – H.A.M RnB/Rap

14. Kanye West – Monster RnB/Rap

15. Kanye West – Hell of a life RnB/Rap

16. Jay-Z – 99 Problems RnB/Rap

17. Bon Jovi – Living on a Prayer Rock/Pop

The main genre that I listen to as we can see form the list above is RnB/Rap. I like this music because the beat and lyrics appeal to me, and music always puts me in a better mood. The stereotypical person that would listen to this genre of music would be the ‘mainstream’ sort of person. This music genre is very popular, which makes it hard to stereotype a typical person who would listen to this genre.

 

End of preliminary task

I finished my preliminary task of creating a draft of a school magazine front cover and contents page.
i will now be moving on to my main task which will be to create a music magazine.

School magazine contents page annotated.

main cover feedback - first draft

creation of my front cover, step by step.

Diary of photo shoot

Before going out and taking our photos for the front cover of our magazine our teacher gave us advice on what sort of photos would look best, and how to take them.

We then set out in a group of 5 with one camera and took several photos which we thought would look good on our front covers. However, these photos were not up to standard and would not work for a front cover. The reasons for these mistakes where for the simple fact that most of the photos taken were landscape where as the magazine cover would be portrait. Also in some of the photos there were more than one person in it, which would also not work for a front cover. We studied them and looked at where and why we went wrong. We then got another chance to go out and take some more photos. These photos definitely improved and we therefore could use some of these for the front cover if our magazine. The background was clear and the model was in a good posed position with only them in the picture, this meant the focus would be on just that person with no distractions in the background.

these are my three bad photo annotations that did not work for the front cover of my magazine.

this is the photo i used for my magazine cover, fully annotated.