Article about the Rapmesiter

Rapmeister 

The Rapmeisters are a small band with 2 members; the names are Anton Taylor and Wayne Marshal. Two boys from completely different backgrounds, the boys become close friends in recent years by living close to each other and producing tracks which they liked from one and another. They soon meet to produce hood videos in their local areas.

History of Anton Taylor 

Anoton was born Hampstead Royal free in London, and grew up in Kentish Town, Kentish Town primarily school Crip gang neighbourhood known as Santana Blocc, although he grew up to become a member of the Bloods. In an October 2003 interview with SBTV News correspondent Sway Calloway, Game described his family as "dysfunctional" and claimed that his father molested one of his sisters. After graduating from Acland Burghley High School in 2002, Anton Taylor attended Westminster University on a basketball scholarship before being suspended in his first semester because of drug allegations. However, the university's athletic department refutes these claims. It was then that he started fully embracing street life and turned towards selling drugs and running with gangs. At the age of 18, he began to follow his older half brother, George Taylor III, known as Big Fase 100, who was the leader of the Cedar Block Pirus. After that Anton Taylor had conflict with the law and soon found out that selling drugs was not what he wanted but to be a rapper with his fellow companion Wayne Marshal.

History Of Wayne Marshal 

Wayne Marchal birth name is Patrick Analwart. He is of Nigerian heritage. He was raised in South London Peackem. He was one of the major gang member hood leader even though he attended St. Paul's R.C. Secondary School in Plumstead, London (now known as St. Paul's Academy) and left with 10 GCSEs. He then attended Saint Francis Xavier Sixth Form College in South London, leaving with 3 A-levels. Wayne Marshal then went on making more tracks in his own small studio which was the basement of his house. He then started to work a part time job in Mcdonalds in Oxford street, In 1997 he lost his brother due to conflict between gangs, his brother was killed outside his own house. After that Wayne Marshal to show his love for his brother and started to write songs describing the hatred he has for gangs and how he lost one of his closest people in his life, this soon attracted a lot of labels and Anton Taylor which made them become friends and produce hood videos together. 

Anton Taylor and Wayne Marshal 

The two young rapper then made 3 hood videos with their gangs in areas like Archway and Kentish town; they became huge hits in websites called YouTube. They had 15,000 views on there first 2 videos, and 30,000 in their recent one including an official video they made. These songs have been played in local clubs around the area which helped them advertise them even more without paying a lot of money for it. After that SBTV and Channel U wanted to them to show off their songs and their passion for rapping, after that MTV was interested in the two young rappers to see what they can show to the nation. 

I firstly took a couple pictures of college students, which I would like to use in my magazine, these images had to be mid-shots. I uploaded these from a digital camera onto the computer, into Iphoto, I then used photo shop to edit these pictures to make the picture on my front cover, I set these picture as the background so I could use fonts, backgrounds, text and other features required in a magazine.

I titled my magazine "ABS Sports" as I thought it relates well with the main images I have got which is a teach bouncing a football in a PE lesson. I have chosen this specific Picture and title because I think one of the most critical subjects in a secondary school or college should be PE this is because It helps keep fitness and healthiness.

Overall I think my magazine looks unprofessional, however considering this was my first time producing a magazine I believe the preliminary task helped me to gain a lot of skills and helped me to learn more about Photo shop. It also enabled me to realise I need to add a lot more professional features to my final magazine like the barcode. The barcode makes the magazine look more professional and realistic because it shows that it has been bought from a shop.

The task helped me to get better understanding of the media industry and how a lot of time and effort needs to go into making the magazine to perfection. It also prepared me for the real deal because I now know what kind of features, text pictures, use of colour etc, I need to include in my coursework to make it seem more realistic and more professional looking.

The sell lines within the pliminary task were good for the magazine, but not a school magazine as the sell lines need to be better the lines I have used are "New head of sports development" and "New head of sports and development interview exclusive" these lines are not very good and effective if you want to attract the readers attention, if I wanted more people to look at the magazine I will need to add better text to my fron cover page so that it stands out and grabs the readers attention.

Most magazines use the colour scheme of black&white as it gives the magazine a mature and professional look, so this was good to have within my preliminary magazine and something I will consider to use in my final magazine. But I did not use black and white colours because I thought that young adults prefers to have a more colourful magazine. If you give a black and white magazine to a young adult they might not like the idea and might find it boring but it makes it seem more professional and better looking.

Comparing music magazine from covers

In this Task I will use my textual analysis skills to compare two distinct music magazine front page. below I have compare two examples of front cover magazines.

Language

Firstly, some of the text is in Gold which emphasises the rich and famous lifestyle with the money and the jewellery. Also, gold is known all over the world as rare and precious, and with Akon wearing a considerable amount, this tells the reader that he can almost anything he wants. The word 'Akon' is in such large lettering, stating that he is the main subject of this certain issue. Also, there is some text in pink which also implies that people, such as Akon, can get get all the girls. Furthermore, pink text shows that the magazine is largely aimed at females and so with Akon being seen as a sex object on the front cover, it is hard to see this magazine not being bought.


Institution

Firstly, the institution of Vibe magazine is to commercially make money. This can clearly be seen as the bar code and price are clearly displayed. Also, the have a website (http://www.vibe.com/) which is again, clearly stated on the front of each edition of Vibe magazine.



Ideology

The ideology of Vibe magazine is to promote R'n'b and Rap music and give this genre a good reputation. The message Vibe magazine tries to bring across is that rap and r'n'b music is the way forward and not all people into this music are involved in things such as drugs, crime etc. This can be shown through coverlines such as 'R'n'B' and 'Hitmaker'.

Audience
The audience for Vibe magazine are roughly between 16-28 as rap and r'n'b music is usually listened to by people of a similar age to this.

Representation
Here, Akon is represented to be a so called gangster by his hand jesture in the shape of a gun, the way he has no top on, and he is wearing bling to emphasise his 'bad boy' image. This appeals to younger males who read this magazine as they will want to be like this

This is the from a well known magazine called NME.  It is very hard for music magazine to attract a larg number of customers, this is because not everybody has the same taste in music. This means that the magazine should only aim for a specific target audience so that they can attract the most customers. This means that this magazine should talk about what is going to be included in the magazine so that the audience can look at it and see if it’s the right magazine for it. The magazine does show this and also shows the type of band that going to be included in the magazine as well.  From this we can learn a lot about the magazine such as the type of mysic, the bands interviewed festiavls and the latest news in the music industry.

The main picture used on the magazine shows us the member of the enemy signing and playing live at a recent festival.  The magazine has edited this picture to make look more affective and pleasing to the audience, they have edited around the singer and given him a glow to make him stand out more.  This attracts the the customer more because it makes the singer stand out and look better.

The colour on the magazine has been used well as they have onlye used a small amount of colours in the magazine. This may infer that its target audience are not young children but a much more older targeted audience.  The way they have used the colours is very effective because they have made the name of the band in yellow which makes the name stand out more then everything in the front cover. 

Analysis of preliminary

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Research into music press

I have researched different types of music press,  to help me create my music magazine. I found that there was no british branded magazine for the type of publication I would like to create. One of the main magazines I looked at is Top of the pops  this will help me design my magazine this is because I would get a overview on how a professional magazine would look like and create one of my own. 
the different types of music magazines I have been looking at include the following: 

• R&B
• Rock
• Pop
• Rap