Imaginary Entity

I have decided to my music magazine on the hip –hop/rap genre. This magazine will include the like of exclusive interviews, posters and other artist’s gossips as well as top tunes to have on your trusty iPod. I want to focus on the interviews as this is a big part of my thought process towards my magazine. This gives the decoders some real insight on what it was like for those artists and how they got were they are in today’s world of 2012. My target audience is around 16 – 19 years of age, I haven’t targeted the older generation as this is a topic that doesn’t really affiliate with them and they would not like or find any of the stuff in my magazine appealing to them. I am certain girls do listen to this type of genre but it would more likely be a magazine more appealing to the male gender. However, hip – hop is one of the most talked about and loved genres out there in the music industry so I know it will have a broad audience. The magazine itself will be quite hip and slang will be used inside referring to English used, but it won’t be too informal either, a bit of both is what I would like to achieve.

My magazine will be available to purchase every fortnight (2 weeks) I realise this would be better as a magazine like mine there is more information and more information/gossip to look forward to, such as new albums/singles as well as things like signing new artist’s to labels and whose leaving the game. This magazine will cost precisely £2.10 this is a good price as the magazine comes out fortnightly so will be worth two weekly magazines and is affordable to those who listen to this genre as stereotypically this audience are based around middle class C1 and below. No one would buy the magazine if it was £3 or more as it just simply to much for my target audience.

Questionnaire:

1. Are you male or female? Male

2. How old are you? 17 years of age

3. What social class category do you fall into? Middle class

4. Favorite idol? Eminem

5. Do you own a car? No I do not

6. Did you achieve good GCSE grades? I achieved average/satisfactory grades

7. What music do you listen to? Hip – Hop/Rap/Grime/Grimestep/Dubstep

8. Favorite music artist? Hmm, either; Eminem/Asher Roth/Professor Green/Devlin/Rizzle Kicks

9. Favorite car? Ford Mustang GT or Mitsubishi Evo Lancer

10. Favorite song? Like Toy Soldiers (Eminem) or Down With the Trumpets (Rizzle Kicks)

11. What do you eat for breakfast? I normally have a bowl of cereal

12. Favorite subject in school? Hard question, I would properly say IT

13. Ever been in a fight/scrap? Yes a few times

14. Ever lied? Yes

15. Do you own a mobile phone? Yes, a BlackBerry Curve

16. Are you in further education? Yes, I am studying a – levels at my sixth form school/college

17. Have a girlfriend? Nope

18. Do you have friends of ethical backgrounds? Yes, I have loads

19. What ethnicity are you? White British

20. What do you want to be when you’re older? I’d like to be either a music video editor for film/music, or an artist

21. What television do you watch? I don’t watch too much television, but I watch Eastenders, Fresh Prince, South Park, Football when it’s on & 4music

22. Indoor or Outdoor person? Outdoor

23. Social or shy? Social

24. Care about fashion? Oh yeah I love clothing

25. Have mates who do drugs? Yes

26. Go to or ever been to a party? I try to go to as many as I can!

27. Had sex? Yeah

28. Name me a music artist you hate… I hate Justin Bieber

29. What brands of clothing do you wear mostly? I wear, Nike, Adidas, Franklin & Marshall & Fred Perry mainly