Detailing the genre I have chosen

I have chosen to use the genre Rap as my genre for my magazine as I think that this style of music is listened to a lot in a college. In my magazine I will be using the most recognisable rappers such as Ice Cube, 2PAC and Dr. Dre. I have decided to do this as I think that if people round the college recognised the magazine then they would be more likely to buy the magazine. My model in my magazine will not be posing with the 'gangster smile' that a lot of professional magazines use as I think this send the wrong message across to the audience. i will have my model posing in a more sophisticated pose. I will do this because I don't want the magazine to give off the wrong impression. The colour scheme that I will be using will be wont be a range of colours as rap magazines don't have very bright and luminous colours like pop magazine covers. Also, I wont be using sharp font as this will make my magazine look less professional and this would effect the amount of buyers. Since my magazine is a music magazine based on the genre of rap, I will be using images and words to make sure that it is obvious that the magazine isn't a pop/hip-hop magazine. 

Here are some covers of magazines that have conventions that i could apply to my magazine;

I have decided to take a couple of things from this magazine as this magazine has a couple of conventions which can be applied to my magazine even though it is a sports magazine it is the music issue.

The words 'THE MUSIC ISSUE'

Names of musicians in the right third.

I have decided to use this image to gather properties off to show how the magazine is obviously a rap magazine. the have did this in a couple of ways;

The words 'THE REAL RAP ISSUE'

The names of well recognised rap artists

The word rap

The image of a rapper for the main image