Research Into R'n'B/Hip-Hop Artists

Christopher Maurice "Chris" Brown (born May 5, 1989) is an American singer-songwriter, dancer, rapper, and actor. He made his recording debut in late 2005 with the self-titled album Chris Brown at the age of 16. The album featured the hit single "Run It!", which topped the Billboard Hot 100, making Brown the first male artist as a lead to have his debut single top the chart since Puff Daddy in 1997. The album has sold over two million copies in the United States and was certified double Platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). Brown's second studio album, Exclusive was released worldwide in November 2007. It spawned two successful singles; his second U.S. number one hit, "Kiss Kiss" featuring T-Pain and "With You", which peaked at number two on the Billboard Hot 

Aubrey Drake Graham (born October 24, 1986), who records under the mononym Drake, is a Canadian recording artist and actor. He originally became known for playing Jimmy Brooks on the television series Degrassi: The Next Generation.
In June 2009, Drake signed a recording contract with Lil Wayne's Young Money Entertainment.  Drake has also won several awards, including two Juno Awards in 2010 for Best New Artist, and Rap Recording of the Year.

Tremaine "Trey" Aldon Neverson (born November 28, 1984), better known by his stage name Trey Songz, is an American singer-songwriter, rapper, record producer and actor. His debut album, I Gotta Make It, was released in 2005, while his second album, Trey Day, was released in 2007. His third album, Ready, was released in 2009 while his fourth studio album, Passion, Pain & Pleasure, was released on September 14, 2010.

Research Into Magazine Front Pages

This Magazine is called 'The Source' which is an R'n'B/Rap Magazine. As we can see from the main image there is a picture of one of the biggest stars in the music industry, Rapper Lil Wayne. This picture straight away informs us on what type of audience this magazine is for...young people both male and female who have an interest in R'n'B and Rap musicians.

We can see that there is a very good use of colour in this magazine. For example the main colours used here are Red, White and Black. These colours all match the colours of the Rappers clothing. This shows good consistency and a good use of colour match and combination.

The writing in the magazine is not too much. We can see that the Main magazine name is large and captures the eyes of the reader and all the other stories are smaller. The subject and features on this magazine are all music related which makes it relevant to the target audience.

                        

This magazine is called 'Vibe'. This magazine is also known  to be a R'n'B/Rap magazine. This is evident from the artist in the image 'Chris Brown' who is know for his R'n'B songs. The use of this artist helps make it clear to us what genre the magazine is for and that the target audience will be also for young people aged 16 -26 who are into R'n'B/Rap music.

In this magazine there is a variety of colours used, such as White, Red, Black, Green and Yellow. The colours used in the text kind of match the clothing of the artist and the environment in which the artist is in. This creates consistency and makes the magazine look clear and appealing. The writing is set out differently from the magazine above. Here the writing is aligned to the left and the right unlike 'The Source' magazine in which there is only writing aligned to the left.  The fact that the image is overlapping the magazine name is good as it makes it look interesting and shows a very good use of space. This is easier than just cramming a load of words at the top followed by the magazine name which will leave not much space for the image.

Magazine Analysis - NME (Cover)

Front Cover

The name of this magazine is NME which stands for New Musical Express. This may connote that they do ont only promote stars in the music industry but also ucoming stars and new artists.The title logo NME is in big block capital letters which stand out clearly. This may emphasise the solidity of the magaizne and may underline that it is  a stable and informative music magazine.The main image is a picture of the music artist Florence and the machine guns. She is dressed in vintage clothing which relates to the vintage theme of the front cover. She has a kind of innocent looking body language with a gaze directed straight at the reader. On the front page there is another pictrue of another artist this is because they are giving away a free poster of him. THis is a way to draw in more readers.The use of fonts in the magazine are very interesting and were obviously picked out carefiully. It is evident from thei image thath the colour of the font are very similar to way the model is wearing. For example the white font matched the white shirt, they red matches the colour of her hair and the black matches the colour of her waist coat. The magazine also uses different types fo fonts, for example the block font for the logo and for the word 'Florence' a block font has been used but has been reduced in width and has been given the italic effect. The cover does not similar to othe rmagazine, this is because of the use of the two images. The second image i sthere as a unique selling point. Instead of the reader seeing 'free poster' making them search thought out the paper tp find it, NME has put the picture on the front page to show us what poster they are offering us.