The document outlines a 1-month timeline for planning and creating a hip-hop magazine covering genres, conventions, photos, logo design, cover page, contents page, and double-page spread layouts. Key tasks include researching magazine ideas and conventions over 1 week; planning genres, names, and layouts over 4 weeks; taking photos over 3 weeks; and using Photoshop for 2 weeks to edit photos and layouts. Inspiration is taken from an XXL magazine cover, contents page, and double-page spread to guide design of the student's own magazine cover, contents, and interview spread.

1. Planning.

2. Timeline
1 week 4 weeks 3 weeks 2 weeks 1months 2weeks
Preliminary task Research Planning Photoshop Editing using Photoshop Evaluation
Genre and
Take photos for my
conventions
magazine cover, contents
research
and double page spread. Photoshop editing

3. Magazine ideas
• Genre: Hip-Hop
• Magazine name ideas - stylish , cool, hip hop.
• Double page spread ides – interview, review, dominated by picture with text by the side.
• Logo - Rap-Up.
• Ideas – black and white writing. Keep contents and double page spread similar.
• Big mast-head main text type on my front cover.
• Rap-Up as its straight to the point.
• Easily recognised genre type.

4. Planning front cover and contents.
Using this Dr Dre xxl front cover as
inspiration. This is what I am looking to do:
Dominate image.
Big masthead so biggest text on front cover.
Keep the front cover colour scheme similar to double spread to keep
the theme going.
Barcode, issue number and price.
Serious face show hip/hop look.
Quote to draw reader in to my magazine.
Using this Dr Dre xxl contents page as
inspiration This is what I am looking to do:
Masthead Main image.
To have a banner across top and bottom of page.
Date and issue.
Page numbers and what's on each page.
Have a quote.
Same kind of colour scheme on contents page.

5. Double page spread planning.
Using this Dr Dre xxl double
page spread as inspiration
This is what I am looking to
do:
I am going to have my image on the left
instead of right but keep same kind of layout.
I am making my double page spread black and
white and going to shadow my image to make
it look more outstanding.
Also a mast head which is the biggest text on
the right.
Then I am going to have some questions
appose from the readers and then try to
answer them.