1. Magazine Production Research
By Oscar

2. Name & Font
The name I have chosen is ‘Section’ as it can have different meanings related to this genre of music. ‘Section Boyz’ are a popular grime group, section can also mean the group of people who my magazine may appeal to – a section of grime fans.
Mind Map - Planning of Name & Font
Pricedown
Lemon Milk
Primetime
King & Rooster
Jihaxus
Collegerion

3. Front Cover Main Image – Actor: direct gaze
Background – Black/White?, Other?
Music news – new song out, new tour
Festival season – Line up/dates etc.
Banner – artist names who feature in the magazine
Cover Mount – Free item: Poster, competition: win tickets?
Barcode/issue no./website
Social media
Colour Palette/theme – Black, white, red, grey
1st Mock-up
2nd Mock-up

4. Contents Page
Numbered columns (page numbers) with short description of the story on that page.
Main Image of actor – in-direct gaze
Background – plain: grey, black, white
“CONTENTS” – layout of letters different.
1st Mock-up
2nd Mock-up

5. Double Page Spread Main cover story Pictures Q&A?
Talk about tour/new track/album

6. Target Audience
The target audience for my magazine is young people, aged between 14 and 25 who are into Grime and Hip Hop music. My magazine will appeal more towards a lower class, urban audience. It will apply to an audience based in south London as the grime scene is large in this area, but it will also appeal to a wider audience of people based all over the UK.
My magazine is aimed at people with the fun-seeker psychographic profile as they enjoy magazines, but also because they have similarities with many grime/hip hop artists: ‘work hard play hard’, they like labels and they care about how they look. Most grime artists like to spend a lot of money on their clothes, they wear high profile labels such as Gucci, Armani and Ralph Lauren.