The document outlines plans for a new hip-hop magazine called "Bling". The title was chosen based on popularity in surveys and its representation of jewellery, wealth, and stereotypes of hip-hop artists and audiences. The magazine will target black male hip-hop fans and feature images of African American artists on the cover to appeal to this audience. Initial ideas include using gold, red, and black colors; graffiti designs; and photographs of models in poses representing potential article topics like a depressed female model for a story on a "good girl gone bad".

1. My Formal Proposal
The title of my magazine that I’ll produce soon will have to be ‘Bling’ because it was a
popular one in the recording questionnaires, that I done. Another reason why I like this
for my title is because I’m expecting my model to wear gold chains around his neck.
Also, in a recent questionnaire I done, females like the sound and look of jewellery and
wealth; this also helped in order to find out a title for my magazine. I also think that,
most Hip-Hop magazine like to use red in their titles, so I thought there are also other
colours that represent this genre as well, making my magazine unique and different
than other Hip-Hop magazine. From all my other option of a masthead for my magazine,
‘Bling’ was more appropriate and stereotypical for Hip-Hop’s artists and target audience.
I’ve chosen the genre of Hip-Hop because it was an instant choice of mine as that is the
genre I mainly listen to and know more about.
Initial ideas about:
● Front page - Have a black male on as the main image because my target
audience will obviously like Hip-Hop music and this genre of music is sang by a
majority of African-American artists, so a potential reason they enjoy that genre
of music is because of that and also in my questionnaire my target audience said
they would like to have a male on the front cover
- Have the colour scheme as gold, red and black
- Potentially have little images to go with some of the other coverlines
● Contents page - I’m thinking about having an image with a graffiti background
framed on there but have the whole contents background as graffiti
- I’ll have
- Add advertising in a corner of a tour or something that could
interest my target audience as they would most likely like freebies
● Double page spread - I’ll have the main image on one half of the double page
spread
- I’ll have a bold font in a graffiti/retro style to stand out as
the title as it will anchor with the article option I had of ‘Good girl gone bad’.
- Having two columns on the other half of the page and have
a row of other pictures of the model on the bottom of the page and the masthead on the
bottom corner and social site links on the other corner.
● Photographs - Have my female model sat in front of the wall looking cool and
depressed like this image of Rihanna:

2. My Formal Proposal
- I’d also have my male artist lean against the wall with a leg on the wall and it to be a high
angle shot with direct address, which will be used for the front cover
- The other male model would be as a close-up whilst he holds a basketball to his chest
as it will go with the other article option of mine for the contents page
- The other female model will be singing into a microphone and not giving direct address
as it will show her concentration and will be for the contents page