DESIGN BRIEF

From competitor research and my own research, I have concluded that my magazine will include the following:

• I will use a solo male artist for my front cover
• My front cover will include the colour scheme of Black, White and Gold which will continue onto my Contents Page
• Within my Contents Page I aim to include 50:50 image to text ratio and ensuring that they of various sizes
• My main focus when making my magazine is to ensure it is a magazine that someone would actually want to buy
• Within the Contents Page I want to ensure that it can navigate the reader throughout my magazine and fulfill its purpose
• On my Double Page Spread, I want to make sure that the colour scheme is different when compared to my Front Cover and Contents Page but to ensure it still creates the vibe of a Hip-Hop magazine
•  I will include a free gift/giveaway in my magazine as it was a preference when carrying out my own survey towards my Hip-Hop magazine. 
• My Double Page Spread will be of a review of a recent single/album and will be informative and informal as well as chatty
• My Front Cover shot will be a medium close up and will allow me to capture more detail for the reader as well as make it more personal for the reader
• I think that my colour scheme for the Double Page Spread will be Black, White and one other colour to ensure it continues the theme of informing the reader, keeping the magazine professional looking and also clean and tidy
• I will use a group shot within my magazine however not for the front cover, I feel that it will be featured in my Contents Page and I will do this because I feel that by including this shot it includes the opinion of my audience
• The general mode of address for my magazine is informal as well as chatty as it makes the magazine more fun and more modern