Mise-en-scene Planning

I have chosen this as a prop in my magazine the actual Prop won't look like this. This is a baseball cap and is associated with the younger generation and hip-hop artists. It is supposed to be considered as being cool and is seen as being mysterious and concealing.

Front cover planning

I have taken this picture from the Internet as a guide for what I want to use as my back ground on my magazine. I will take a pictures of some boarded up houses near me. The reason i want to take this picture is because my it relates to the stereotypical background of my genre and it will be an insight used to portray the artists background. This picture represents the conventions of a drug dealers lifestyle. Boarded up houses are used as a shelter from police to move drugs and craft them. This should interest the audience as this is a stereotypical rappers lifestyle before they become an artist.

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First Draft of Front cover

This is the first draft of what my front cover of my magazine will look like. I have called it 'Xclusive' this is because I have reason to believe that my magazine will have the most recent releases of hip-hop before other magazines from my sources, I have named it 'Xclusive' with an X to make it more user friendly and meet the hip-hop stereotypical slang used aimed at my target audience. I have ideas of making the artist be included in the title of my magazine by making him/her cross their arms in an X fasion to include the artist more with the making of the magazine to try an invoke a trend within the magazine to make it more popular amoungst fans of this magazine.
Other things the magazine includes is sell lines and stories of the artist featured on the front cover. It also has a slogan 'You heard it here first' . It also has sneak previews of the contents of the magazine on the front cover and some minor headlines. The website of the front cover will be on the bottom of the magazine.

The contents page informs the reader of the regular and unique features included in the magazine, promotes the magazine, and creates a brand identity for audiences to identify with. This contents page subverts from the stereotypical connotations of a contents page because they have contents spelt 'contex' and the image is slightly to the side. An additional convention that is found in a majority of contents pages is an image(s) this is important as it draws the readers attention as it is usually someone who is associated with the genre of the magazine. This contents page includes an image of a Hip-Hop icon Ludacris. However most contents pages do not include a issue number and date this could be a good idea as it allows us to see when it was made without going back to the front cover, this can also be argued as being annoying to the reader as it looks like an addition piece of text which would make the reader dis-heartened to carry on reading the page because it looks to long and a lot to take in. The contents page also has sub headings giving the reader the ability to select a specific section in which interests them the most the also alternate the colour of the lines to make it easier for the reader to read the words.

Textual Analysis

Vibe is a music and entertainment magazine which was launched in 1993 by its founder/producer Quincy Jones. It is a widely known mainstream magazine and has previously had features of many famous music artists for example Beyonce, Ciara, Chris Brown,Lil' Wayne, T.I and Akon. The front cover of this Vibe magazine is of Usher and shows him wearing what seems to be a very expensive diamond ring and diamond platinum watch connotes he is successful and wealthy. The dark glasses give him a promiscuous look which makes the reader more enticed to see what he looks like. The sell lines 'The SEXY Issue' Tells the audience that it is a special issue and is navigated away from the hip-hop genre. Usher being on the front of the cover of the special 'SEXY issue' vibe magazine shows that he is seen as an idle in this issue. The use of the word 'swagger' in big red writing shows that it applies to Usher and relates to the hip-hop audience. The sell lines in which are yellow and black are used to show that they are special to this issue of the magazine and the sell lines that match the magazine title are what is usually in the magazine. The front cover is also a conventional magazine front cover as the masthead is placed behind the focal image and has a conventional layout with a limited amount of colours. Another way in which it conventional is through the use of barcode and website. This tells us that Vibe works as a convergence industry and that the audience are also young as most internet users are the younger generation.

Textual Analysis

XXL is an American magazine specialises in Hip-Hop.The target audience is 15 to 38 years of age and the sell lines tells us (the reader) that it is an informal and aims to be user friendly to the target audience being the younger generation by not producing many sell lines making it easier for users to take in the contents, 'Dueling Eye Candies Of The Year' this connotes that it is aimed at the younger generation because sex is most affiliated with the younger generation. The front cover is effective because it features hip-hop and gangsta rapper 50 cent, who has been the face of rap of recent Years. The picture of him sitting on money and counting it shows that he is a very successful individual. The handcuffs show that he cannot be contained stereotypical of the hip-hop nature that most artists have been convicts but these handcuffs show that Rapper 50 cent can't be incarcerated The mise-en-scene of the baseball cap and the baggy jeans and t-shirt are all also stereotypical of hip-hop. For most rappers within the hip-hop genre are stereotypically associated with crime if they have large amounts of money. Counting money is also associated with crime as drug dealers count large sums of money. His facial expression is aggressive a stereotypical view of all of the hip-hop rap artists by the audience. 50 Cent being able to sit on the money shows how much he has and the power he has as it is extremelly risky to have all that money out and no one has attempted to steal his money. Harris publications is the publisher of XXL magazine aswell as a scratch magazine. Both magazines are hip-hop based. The sell lines ' Dueling Eye Candies Of The Year!' appeal to the urban audience as this is an event that takes place every year and get the audience involved by making them vote for their best candidate.The sell lines 'Snoop Dogg Gets A Job' would interest the readers because rappers do not really need to get jobs as they make enough money through their music this would interest the audience as it is unusual in the hip-hop society. The front cover is also a conventional magazine front cover as the masthead is placed behind the focal image and has a conventional layout with a limited amount of colours. Another way in which it conventional is through the use of barcode and website.