Genre : Pop/Hip Hop

I really like the genre of hip hop as I think you can get some really stunning shots for the front image that are also extremely unusual. Unlike Punk they are very colourful and you can go very bold with most of the parts on the page. Above is a mini mood board of different types of pop / hip hop music magazines and also some famous artists that fall into this category which I think can really inspire me.


Audience Investigation - Age? Read music magazines? Preferred Genre?
 -Below is a print screen of a message that I sent to a lot of my facebook friends asking them to help me with research...

I kindly got quite a few replies... which has helped me decide on what route I think I'll go down and what the target audience is. Here were just three of the responses...