PRE-PRODUCTION PAPER WORK

Location recce form

Where or what location are you planning to shoot your music magazine? I would like to shoot my music magazine outside my church because the genre of my music magazine is gospel. I want the audience to know the genre of my music magazine as soon as they pick it up.

 

Directions to get there? Bus: 257 from Walthamstow to Stratford. The stop is Leytonstone fire station.

What do you like about it? I like the location I have chosen because it would match the genre of my music magazine, and this will immediately infer that it is a gospel magazine. The scenery of my magazine shoot is natural and this will reassure the audience that my magazine is not like any other magazine, as I would not edit the scenery.

What problems might you encounter with it? The only problem I might encounter with is, people from the church finding it disrespectful to utilize the church scenery for a photo shoot.

How do you plan to overcome them? I would simply inform them about my media production which is to create a music magazine. I would also inform them that I needed to take pictures in front of a church, as the genre of my music magazine is gospel.

How is your location relevant to your music magazine/artist? The genre of my music magazine is gospel and the location I have chosen for the shoot is church. All the artists that I would like to be featured in my music magazine are gospel artists

How does your location relate to the (sub-genre) music genre? There are many different genres within gospel, I would like to have rap, and urban contemporary gospel artists included in my music magazine. The location I have chosen relates the sub-genres (rap and urban contemporary gospel) as it is modern church and the gospel music is portrayed in many different ways.

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Hi everyone, welcome back to another exclusive interview with ‘Sing Dance Worship’. Joining us today is the most famous Christian rapper, he’s an actor, he’s a song writer, he’s a producer, and he is LECRAE.

SING DANCE WORSHIP: Thank you for joining us today Lecrae, it is such an honour to have you here.

LECRAE: NO thank you for having me here, I am so excited.

SIND DANCE WORSHIP: before we begin, we would all like to know about you, about Lecrae.

LECRAE: I am Lecrae Devaughn Moore, ermm I am a hip-hop artist and I love making music that inspires people to do the best they can. I am a Christian and my faith plays an important part to my music. I never promote drugs, sex and violence in my music because I have been there and I now know that there is a lot more things to life than those three dangerous things.

SING DANCE WOSHIP: I love that because there is not many artists out there that do what you do man, so it’s amazing to know that not everyone thinks about sex, drugs and violence.

LECRAE: Yeah, I mean many young people are lost and trying to find something that can comfort them and they usually rely on sex, drugs and alcohol, but if they have someone telling them that they don’t need sex, drugs and alcohol to get through life especially through sings because that’s what are generation is in to. Music, through music we can save many lost people.

SING DANCE WORSHIP:  that’s really good man, tell us a bit more about your big break

LECRAE: My big break. I would say my big break was when I was 25 years old, I released my first album but I didn’t expect to be so popular, of course I was hoping it was popular but I wasn’t expecting it. When I found out that my album made it on to the billboard and reached no. 29, I went down on my keens and worshiped god because without him nothing will be possible.

SING DANCE WORSHIP: so Lecrae we heard that you do not like the term ‘Christian rapper’ and you do not want people to know you as a Christian rapper. Tell us, why does it bother you so much?

LECRAE: It is not that I don’t like being labelled as a Christian rapper. I prefer to be labelled as a hip-hop artist. There’s nothing wrong with being a Christian rapper because I’m a Christian so I enjoy Christian music but as soon as you’re labelled a Christian rapper, atomically people thing that you’re music is only for Christians, and other people might not even listen to my music because it’s ‘Christian music’ and they might automatically think that it’s not good music. I am trying to win non-Christians as well as Christians because I want to inspire everyone to be better.

SING DANCE WORSHIP: what advice would you give to people that are always negative?

LECRAE: My thing is just I always tell people before you complain, be grateful you got breath to complain with, just appreciate the little things. Just the small blessings that you just have. You woke up, you can walk and you are alive. We lost people last year, so just all those little things.

SING DANCE WORSHIP: that is great man, because everyone needs someone to bring them up and you are one of the good ones man, always trying to make people happy. It is good because there is many people out there that look up to you so you keep up the good work. Well it was a pleasure having you here today and I hope you keep making your way up

LECRAE: It was a pleasure to be here and I will never give up on my dreams man.

MAGAZINE PROPOSAL

Write a proposal for your magazine.

Your proposal must include:

·         Genre of your magazine

Gospel music

·         Target audience (demographic, socio-economic and psychographic)

The primary target audience for my magazine is black Christian males and females who live in English speaking countries. However, anyone could be interested into gospel music.

The socio-economic that is most likely to listen to gospel music is group A and B

·         Title of your magazine

Sing Dance Worship

·         House style:

Font types that you will use for the masthead

‘sweet sensations’ by Billy Argel, I have chosen this font because it will make my front page look more appealing.

         Font types that you will use for the cover lines.

‘good night’ by Eriek Molina. I have chosen to use this font because it looks hand written which will give my magazine cover a unique look.

Font types that you will use for the body text.

‘Fashion fetish’ by Levi Szekeres. I have chosen this font because it is easy to read and it will give my magazine a classy look.

·      Main cover line: What will be the main feature of your magazine? Title and strap line (it must be the feature for which you wrote your article or interview).

My main cover line will include the name of the special artist that will be included in my magazine.

·      Additional cover lines: What other contents are you going to include in your magazine?

I would be including a song lyric and have the readers guess which song it’s as it will make it more interesting for them to read.

·      Additional elements that you will include in your magazine cover (skyline, flashes, puffs, plugs, screamers, etc)

My additional element will be a skyline because it will give the readers additional information about the magazine.

·      Contents page: How many sections will your magazine have? What will be ALL the contents that you will include in each section of the magazine

My magazine will have only 4 sections because I don’t people getting bored whilst reading it, also to make my magazine more fun to read, I am going to put little lyric games on each page so the readers have something to look forward to each time. The first section of my magazine will have information about what’s going to be on the magazine. The second section will have information about the songs that are featured in my magazine and information about the artist. The third section will have the lyrics to the song feature in my magazine. The fourth section will be a special artists and all their songs.

·      Date and price of your magazine.

23/01/2017 and £1.99

MAGAZINE DRAFT

The layout of the text is disorganised. this is unconventional because it contradicts the genre formality of the magazine.