1st look at changing features

Things i need to do:

• Get all my images 40+.
• Spend time messing around with backgrounds.
• 3 edits of each my front cover, contents & double page spread.
• Get new font for my main heading.

                       

BACKGROUNDS:


 

Changing my front cover around and the name.







Quick edits.

Assesing other work and my own.

 

 

 

 

Media Evaluation questions

Prelim 3

I had to use some of my test shots for my double page spread as i only got the pictures of Jordan who i have decided will be my model earlier today.

Contents Prelim

This is the kind of contents that i have come to a conclusion i want.

Front Cover Prelim

His headis a little see through but we could no0t figure out why.







This is my 1st prelim example of the kind of magazine cover i would like to use! I have chosen new font types for the subtitles but i think it works well. This is my favrouit edit so far because of all of the colour.



Trying to get me set up right

Prelim DoublePage Spread

This is my 1st attemotat making a doublepagespreadfor an article. I have included allof the features i wanted and experimentedonmerging pictures togeather like i 1st did on my experimenting with photshop post. Danny is notmy modelbut these are a few pictures we took as maybe including the same kind of photo's on my magazine.
To improve on this i could remove the image that is shown most clearly on the left that way it is less busy and will make the other images shine out.

Publication

The kind of people that may distribute my magazine are people that may distribute magazines such as K-mag or Rago magazine. These are both UK based magazines that focus on the genre of hip hop, they also focus on other genres of music but these are as close the type of magazine I want to find. Hip hop is a mainly American based genre of music as it is not massive in the UK. The majority of Hip Hop fans in the UK are into grime music and other sorts of faster based maybe drum and base kind of rapping, this isn’t real original hip-hop it has been changed and adapted.

The publisher of Kmag is Phoenix Publishing, formerly Vision Publishing so I feel that these could be the people that would publish my magazine although they pride themselves on being the largest selling drum and base magazine in the uk I find this as a good way to advertise my magazine as if in some way they could be partnered that would help sell both magazines massively.

Mock Up's

This is a quick Mock Up of what i think my magazine contents page would look like. I will add more detail to it, use the idea of having a photo on the left hand side and then fade thumb nail  sized photo's in that are relevant to the other stories in my magazine as if it were real it would have more than just ohoto's of the one artist.

This is my Double page spread Mock Up that i have decided on, maybe having a wall photo of someone dressed in attire that suits my genre. This person will then be on my front cover and contents in charicter of my artist. I would like to add the text mixed in with the images etc. i have a plan of what i want to do.

(my front cover needs re-doing as it has been lost today)

Experimenting with Photoshop



Experementing with a fish eye lense
to get a comedic look on making
the head look larger than average.



By merging two images togeather i thought that
i could maybe get a cool double page spread image or
image for my contents page, i think that i could
improve it by adding more of the faded pictures in
so that it looks like a time line of him moving
along.

Mid Shot Poses

 

 

These photo's are simple mid shot poses that i could incorperate into my front cover magazine, i wouldn't want the model looking directly at the camera as it wouldn't be the best photo it could be. I would rather the model looking away at some angle so i experimented with the idea of tilting there heads into different angles to see witch way would look the most aesthetically pleasing.

Mag double page spread 2

Magazine Article

Q+A:

How does it feel to be named as the comeback of British Hip-Hop?

‘‘It feels like a great weight on my shoulders to uphold that responsibility to get Britain back on the map and to get my message across. But on a whole it isn’t just me, my brother has bought me into the game and he’s sticking with me to help me through it. I have my fans also’’

You and Big Jurn have been collaborating through the years how do you feel about going to the states?

‘‘If I go to the states it will be short time only I am not turning my back on my country or my fans, I will always stick to my roots and stay close to my friends and family.’’

All this fame has almost come over night to you, 3 years ago you were only rapping in street battles and the move to having offers thrown at you and big names wanting to meet you surely must get to your head?

‘‘I am going to stay true to what I rap for. I write my own songs and me and Jurn have a laugh with what we do, we try not to take it too seriously. All of my great things will come in time, and yes it will be pretty awesome if I get the opportunity to hook up with Wiz and the Gang. I will promise not to smoke too much. Sorry mum.’’

Of course you haven’t released a mix tape or a debut album before so this is a 1^st. Some may say you’re not a big sensation yet, but your YouTube hits are through the roof. Would you say that you are the future of Hip-Hop?

‘‘Well I’m here aren’t I, I wouldn’t say that I am the future of Hip-Hop, I am an individual artist that has risen from the suburbs of Leicestershire to spread my message. Live your life don’t waste it! That is all I want to do, I say F**k the haters and let them hate I am here because I am different and am bringing back the classic recipe to Hip-Hop. I am young and am still studying the ins and outs of music at Leicester College, I haven’t had time to do an album or make mix tapes, I want to build on what I have and maybe one day I can be the ‘future of Hip-Hop’. I am still young.’’

Your Mix tape features a remake of the classic song “Gimme’ the Loot” by Biggie Smalls a world famous Hip-Hop Icon. This is a tribute Mix tape is it not?

‘‘Notorious, Biggie, B.I.G has been a massive influence to not only me but just about everyone who inspires to be a young famous Hip-Hop genius, and that is exactly what he was. His life was cut short for no reason other than petty beef that was uncalled for. I inspire to the both Tupac and Biggie but I see biggie as the biggest influence towards the way I rhyme today and the person I am today. Obviously my brother was a massive Hip-Hop head and was into the East Coast West Coast stuff, this interested me when I was still a Yute.’’

How did your name come about, ‘Kid Triomf’?

‘’Well when I was young my mum used to call me ‘part superior de triomf’, this is Spanish for top trump as I was always a high achiever in my classes at school etc. I shortened it to triomf and added kid in front while I was in the UK because of my young talent, I was still just a kid.

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Magazine article

‘Kid Triomf’ is an upcoming British artist bringing old school rhythms back to the modern day Hip-Hop scene. As time has moved on Hip-Hop has changed and adapted, it used to be about quick flows and rhyming now it is as if it has become poetry based around a strong beat and baseline in the back to fill the lack of rhyming. Kid Triomf is coming up and wanting to overcome that poetry feel. He comes with quick flows, hard blows and traveling the world with his killer ass shows!

Moving to Leicester his family migrated into a 3 bedroomed house, housing him, his mum and dad, sister and older brother he was bought up in a shared room. His brother was the oldest and was a heavy old school Hip-Hop fan. Kid Triomf was into the music and grew up in the room full of posters of rappers such as ‘BiggieSmalls’ ‘Tupac Shakur’ ‘IceCube’ and ‘Ll Cool J’. His brother bought Kid Triomf into the world by starting him out in MC battles recognising his talent at the local hot spot, he soon got recognised and people from all over the midlands were hearing about him. His YouTube hits were rocketing up sky high, he moved on from the grunge hot spot in the middle of Leicestershire and started performing in clubs at the age of 15, he is now moving up in the world and managed to get himself some studio time. His name was becoming to be known and his style of battling was original, he was quick and hit hard but he was tired of battling and wanted to rap for a meaning. He began hooking up with a well-known DJ named ‘Big Jurn’ and were producing some fresh new beats that added to the sound of ‘Kid Triomf’, the two of them were linking up on a regular bases producing new tracks that they were getting all positive feedback on from the world of YouTube. He is just an average boy from Leicester studying Music at Leicester College. High Grades and still living two separate life’s, he is growing up quick and now at the age of 17 he is in his last year at college and starting to focus on getting his record deal. He is taking a dive into the Hip-Hop business with all the odds supporting him.

His debut mix tape ‘CooLoot’ is a dedicated mixtape to the famous rapper biggie smalls who he has idled his whole life. The track list features an artist cover on the biggie smalls track ‘Gimme da Loot’. Kid Triomf is in tight with ‘Jurn’ and the colab mixtape is making big news over the whole of UK it is said to be putting UK Hip-Hop back on the map. He has been offered record signings from independent record labels such as ‘Criminal Records’, ‘Fat City Recordings’ and ‘Real World Records’.

Kid Triomf has been contacted by the Pittsburgh GangGang upcoming sensational Hip-Hop group Taylor gang to talk about possibly going to America to record a collaboration mixtape with the ‘Taylors’ rumoured to be named ‘Jet Smoke’. We are lucky to have Kid Triomf to talk to us about this new sudden fame and Taylor collaboration.

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