Introduction to my music magazine

Brief

Hi, I’m back and have something really intriguing for everyone today and for the coming days. I have been put to the task by my teacher to create a music magazine. I have to produce the front page, contents page and a double page spread with an interview with my chosen artist.

Initial feelings

It’s understandable to say that writing about an artist is easy; however, I have to create my own artist. This is the main section I am wary about as this is the first time I have been asked to create a character so I will find this difficult because I want to create a unique rapper which is going to take a lot of research as I need to find a gap within the magazine market which I have already done but creating the idea of a female grime artist is literally only the start.

Personally, I’m overwhelmed by this task as I am not too confident with my Photoshop skills yet and just generally looking at all the different aspects of a magazine, especially a music magazine, but I will put all my effort into this task.

Plans

My plan is to create a female grime artist as I believe that female grime artists don’t seem to get much recognition for what they are producing. Furthermore, the grime industry is flooded with male rappers. This may just be due to stereotypical views that a lot of us have of women not being as ‘hard’ or strong as men but I am creating this magazine in order to change this stereotype and create an equal image of men and women due to the fact that we are all equal regardless of age, gender, size and culture.

As you can see from this print screen above, I simply searched 'Grime magazine' and not even one female grime artist appeared as they are all male. There is one woman that came up whilst researching and even she looked like an asset to the man she's being held by. I do not approve of inequality so I am taking this opportunity and using it to put forward my opinions as well as I possibly can.