Magazine Cover

3 Magazines

Project 3 Magazine

The 3 magazines I choose are XXL, Vibe and The Source; these are all leading hip hop magazines in the US. However all of the magazines are for sale in England. The 3 featuring artist in the magazines are TI, Lil Wayne and R Kelly. I choose these 3 because they have 3 different connotation and detonations.

Lil Wayne – The Source
Denotation

Lighting- The lighting is quite bright to catch his facial expression.

Photography-
* Lil Wayne gives a cocky mean mug photo shoot, which represent the new hip hop artist of today.
* His wearing a red cap and white T-shirt and the magazine cover is based around those colours.
*He has a photo which shows his tattoos on his face and this represent him being tough and rough for his image.

Connotation

Lil Wayne- representing the new attitude of hip hop in a new era. He represent the tough urban of hip hop, close up in the magazines you can see his tattoos

The Source

The source is the biggest Hip hop magazine in the US and what makes it different from other hip hop magazines, is that it has an authentic style that separates it from other magazine, it has years of legacy and history, covering every article know to hip hop. They provide the most in dept editorial content specifically focus on the hip hop culture and life style. The other reasons why people like to read the source is that they try to connect people from different generations and they try to see their artist more than just a musician or a young thug trying to make some money. Most of the artist today like Eminem, Notorious BIG, DMX and other artist where known through out the world because of the source and their unsigned hype article that there editorial staff created, they are know as the mind squad. Due to the source success it has been called the bible of hip hop by journalist covering the business. The source isn’t just a magazines when hip hop was know through out the world the source quickly followed with other things other than the brilliant magazines they published. They have created their own shows called the source TV show, made albums the source hip hop hits volume 1-10 and have their own award show called the source awards.

TI- XXL

Detonation

Lighting – The lighting is done from behind so you can just see the shadows on their foot.

Photography- T.I and his crew are all standing one behind the other but fan out so you can see their body and faces. The cover is based on what the artist are wearing it has a dark colour scheme, to make the front cover stand out. This is a simple front cover not a lot of flashy design or images but it still captivates the audience.


Connotation

T.I representing his crew for the people of America.

XXL

Since 1997, XXL has competed with hip-hop powerhouse magazines such as The Source and Vibe. It was founded by former Source staffer Jules Winnfield, as well as others who wanted to create a better magazine than The Source, which they felt was compromised because Benzino, a Boston, Massachusetts-based rapper and associate of The Source publisher David Mays, were believed to be influencing the editorial content and rating system. The magazine's editors have included Elliott Wilson and Datwon Thomas.
In December 2006, XXL took over the hip-hop producer/DJ magazine Scratch (another title owned by Harris Publications), rebranding it as "XXL Presents Scratch Magazine". It shut down in September 2007. Other titles with limited runs have also been launched under the XXL umbrella, including Hip-Hop Soul, Eye Candy Magazine and Shade45 Magazine.

R-Kelly- Vibe

The vibe magazine is known through as the definitive voice of urban culture. They influence people through out the world by their music, life and style. Vibe is an award winning magazine publishing entertainment, fashion, politics and culture. Vibe’s innovation, journalistic integrity, brand equity, and overall swagger make it the No. 1 reference choice among male and female trendsetters in small and large cities in the U.S. and abroad.
Detonation

Lighting- The picture lighting is dark all around this makes the main image stand out and makes the audience focus on it.

Photography- R-Kelly he shows the other side of the hip hop industry and tries to show all the problems and negative side of it. Again the font colour scheme mix with what the artist is wearing.

Vibe

Vibe is a magazine, launched 1993 by founder Quincy Jones. The publication predominantly features R&B and hip-hop music artists, actors and other entertainers. Issued monthly, the magazine's target audience is predominantly young, urban followers of hip-hop culture. Though hip-hop mogul Russell Simmons was rumored to be an initial partner, publisher Len Burnett revealed in a March 2007 interview that Simmons clashed with Editor-in-chief Jonathan Van Meter.
The magazine owes its success to having a broader range of interests than its closest competitors The Source and XXL which focus more narrowly on rap music or the rock & pop-centric Rolling Stone and Spin. It also differs from the more staid Essence, Ebony or Jet publications by attracting younger readers of many ethnicities. As of 2007 Vibe has a circulation of approximately 800,000. Advertisers run the gamut from record labels to Dolce & Gabbana to Cognac brands.

Music Video Proposal

1) The track that we decided to use is Ne-yo, Jamie Foxx feat Fabolous – She Got Her Ownd
2) The members will be Deo and TJ
3) Camera - on the camera work me and TJ will be changing places on who is going to do the camera work, we both will have single shoot of ourselves, if it comes to conclusion that both me and him will be in the shoot we will recruit another member of the team.
Performer – Deo and TJ
Director – Deo and TJ
4) The video’s had inspired me and TJ is the work of Hype Williams, the way he make music video so simple but it’s very eye catching to audience’s eyes.
Ne-Yo – So Sick
Coldplay – Viva la Vida
5) We will be filming the music video in the TV Studio.
6) We will start filming on 26th Jun.

New Music Technology

Ways of accessing the music industries.

Thier are so many ways to access the music industries you can use programs on computer or devices to acces music. Devices like Ipod and Sony Mp3 walkman can let you download an Mp3 file and let you listen to thousands of your music choice. You can also browse through the internet, Sites like Youtube and Myspace can let you listen to music video etc. Also programs like limwire and Maddog can illegally download any music type that are browse.
There are also many programs to help musicians on the way of being an artist programs like Reason for editing music and Fruity loops for making beats thier are thousands of programs to use.

Audience

Buying music online is now a simpler way to download music on your Gadget, using software like I-tunes to download mp3 can be quick and cheap way to listen to music. You can buy single files for as cheap as 79p or buy the whole album. Mp3 is also more portable compare to a CD Walkman you can also download thousand of tracks Like and ipod shuffle which can hold about 1-2 thousands of music *estimated plus an ipod has also Photos, Videos , and Films features that the user can enjoy.

Criminal Encouragement – encourages “criminal” activity:
This encourages “criminal” activity by downloading tracks that are not licensed, by doing this you find yourself breaking the law not even noticing. Most people use Peer to Peer, file sharing e.g. Limewire.

Industry

Apple are the leading digital dowload company they have many range of MP3 (Ipods) which can be bought between £32-£200. They have recently bought out a new produck in the mobile phone department which they called the Iphone.

In other internet rivalries Rupert Murdoch owner of MySpaceone of the biggest internet connection also his company New International owns Fox, Sky, The Sun and many global media company. Google has recentlyentered the video sharing Industries by buying the biggest video sharing online YouTube. YouTube, LLC is a video sharing website where users can upload, view and share video clips.

New Music “Vox Pop”

Usually the interviewees are shown in public places, and supposed to be giving spontaneous opinions in a chance encounter — unrehearsed persons, not selected in any way. As such, broadcast journalists almost always refer to them as the abbreviated vox pop. In U.S. broadcast journalism it is often referred to as a man on the street interview or M.O.T.S.

I’m going to be Vox Pop asking certain people this three questions.
- Q. “Do you use Peer to Peer to download music?”
- Q. “Do you own an iPod or MP3 device?”
- Q. “What sites do you use to access music?”

2)Bow-wow's myspace has alot of features to keep the fans keep in track on how thier favourite artist is doing. Things like video and newtracks are publish on his myspace site to keep the fan updated. It has a lot of information to the lates albums and the oldes videos any events and tours that the artist is doing are all publihed on the site for any fans to look at. His site also includes a forum for all the fans can chat to other fans and talk about the arist.

3)Flo-rida is a new upcoming artist with a highly successful start, Flo Rida has already had a major impact on the mainstream in 2008. He uses his myspace to keep fans updated with his music he has music and videos that the fans can listen and watch and he also has an official online store where you can buy merchedise such as t-shirts, hats etc.

Project Two, Part Two CD Cover

Front Cover

Back Cover

CD Cover

This is my cd cover i made for T.I

This is the cd cover i edited on adobe photoshop CS3 it was originally plain black back ground so i change it so it would have the scarface theme effect with the half white half balck. In the orginal cover you can see his face in a none sketch for so i went and change that because i think i look better i also change the font it was originally written across his face but i move it to his head so you can see it better. Thier were a few problems while i was changing the colour like his hat was the same colour as the background and i wanted to change it so i use the polygon lasso to do this i selected the area i wanted and change the colour in image then adjustment and then change its hue/saturation.

Photo Montage

Here are a couple of advertisment pictures around the colloge.