Hip Hop with politics

This is another Hip Hop magazine "The Source", which incorporate Hip Hop with politics. This comes down to the fact that "The Source" is a Hip Hop magazine. Here it presents rappers and Hip Hop artists who support Obama, as a way of encouraging more people to vote.

Another Hip Hop magazine of "Vibe", in another issue which uses Obama on the front cover of their issue. In this issue the image focus is on Obama, through the use of close up of Obama's face. Although the main image is of one of a politician, other Hip Hop regular storyline can be seen such an issue of Jay Z.



This is the front cover of Vibe magazine, which is one of the largest Hip Hop magazine based in America. As you an see, Vibe has an image of Obama on the front cover to possible promote this policies in order for the public of America to vote for him. Obama may have been used on the front cover of the magazine due to the fact that he is black, as most Hip Hop magazine promote the success of black people.

I have used similar headlines in my own magazine (Lyrical)stating "Special juice issue, it's Obama time for the second time". This is because other Hip Hop magazines include such issue as it's educative.

Double page spread changes

I started my dps using "Indesign" but after I had completed a rough layout, I found out that my creation for my dps did not match my flat plans and so therefore needed changes. In addition I decied to change my dps from Indesign into "photoshop" due to the fact that my images on top of my article were, looked are too crowed, which was not the look I was going for.

Contents page edit using "Befunky"

This is some of the ediits I have done
for my contents page. I have added
text in order for my image  to relate
to music, I have added text to the image.
In order to make the image stand out, I have
added a border around the image, which
goes with my colour scheme (using
colour wheel).

I wasn't sure which images I wanted to use for my
contents page, due to the fact that I liked both images,
in order to find out which one suited my genre.
I asked people which image they liked the most, and
at the same time understand my genre of music.
I wanted to put two of these pictures next to each other, as I couldn't choose
one image. I had added border around this image aswell, so that it relates to
the one above.

Interview for dps: corrections made!

I had drafted my interview and sent it off for it to be marked. When I finally got my interview back, there were a lot of corrections that needed to be made, in order to ensure my interview was chatty and entertaining. These were the things/ways in which I needed to improve my interview piece:

• To make my sentences shorter, so that it's easy to read as well as understand it.
• I had to also think carefully  about whether I was talking to Paiidz or about her. (In the end I decided that it would be far more interesting if I was to talk to the artist. I have done so in my corrections.)  
• I was to add more of what my artist said in my interview I had conducted with her. 
• Lastly I had to read more examples of such articles. 

I could not find examples of such articles on the internet, however I have tried to make my interview sound more smoother. I then sent my completed corrections by e-mail for my teacher to mark. 

How I edited my interview

Layout in photoshop

Front cover update

I have created a rough layout for my magazine, using photoshop. I will be posting how my layout turned out, which ensure that some changes has to be made. I will be posting this very soon.