Response to brief

I have decided to work on a print edition of a music magazine for my AS coursework because I enjoy reading magazines myself. I will be doing this on my own and will follow the following spec for it;

"Preliminary exercise: using DTP and an image manipulation program, produce the front page of a new school/college magazine, featuring a photograph of a student in medium close-up plus some appropriately laid-out text and a masthead. Additionally candidates must produce a DTP mock-up of the layout of the contents page to demonstrate their grasp of the program.

Main task: the front page, contents and double page spread of a new music magazine (if done as a group task, each member of the group to produce an individual edition of the magazine, following the same house style). Maximum four members to a group.
All images and text used must be original, produced by the candidate(s), minimum of FOUR images per candidate."

My initial ideas for my music magazine are to go with an Urban genre as it appeals to me and I think I would be able to do that genre best. My target audience I think will be for the elder teenage into early 20's as I think this genre of music appeals to that age group the best. I think the audience would still be in education probably and from different cultural backgrounds. Magazines such as 'Uptown', 'XXL' and 'Vibe' have the young R&B Urban appeal to it that I'd like in my music magazine. I will research into these magazines to get inspiration.