AS Media Studies Foundation Portfolio

 After several reevaluations and revamping, I am confident in my final cover page for my magazine.

Why Queen Diamond Isn’t Slowing Down   Since she burst onto the hip-hop scene in 2017 with “Pretty Girl Freestyle,” the now 20-year-old rapper has been on a seemingly inexorable rise She kept her rapping under wraps for years, even from her parents. But “when I got to college, I was like, ‘These people don’t know me. I can be whoever I want.’ One night I was rapping at a party, and suddenly everybody knew me as 'Queen Diamond' Every day, there are the lessons that come with fame. “The only thing I don’t like about having all eyes on you at all times is not all eyes are good eyes,” she says. “I still want to be able to walk into Walmart and buy dog food. I still want to party in the club and nobody’s recording me and no super-judgey internet police are going, ‘Shame!’ But all that comes with it, and you have to be prepared for people to be in your business, 24/7. Indeed, one gets the sense that Diamond has just begun to scratch the surface of what she has to offer. S...

 For my feature story I will be interviewing Model #2 (Female) who goes by stage name 'Queen Diamond'  Below is a guide of questions that I will use throughout the interview: 1. How old are you? 2. What inspired you to rap? 3. How did you decide on the stage name Queen Diamond? 4. In the music industry, most female take up singing rather than rapping. What led you to decide on rapping? 5. How has your journey as an upcoming rapper treated you? 6. Did you have any inspirations growing up? 7. In what moment did you realize that your career was finally taking off? 8. What have you learned thus far about the rap game? 9. Has your experience as a female rapper just as you imagined it to be? 10. What advice would you give to upcoming artists?

 For my magazine photoshoots I had a photo session for both a math and female candidate, which I first Introduced you guys in my "Model Introduction" post. Below our some pictures from the shoots

Over the past week or so I focused on mastering creating feature leads and feature stories. I am now confident that I'll be able to create a double page spread in the upcoming future. As I finish my practice magazine, I've decided that my next step will be to decide what content I will specifically include in my magazine, which I will do using the results of my previous survey. Because it indicates what my target audience would be most interested in reading. In addition, I'll start planning what kind of aesthetic and photos I'd like to see in my magazine.  So, my upcoming blog posts will be discussing my finalized magazine ideas and thoughts. 

Production Calendar In order to stay organized and on track with the completion of  my magazine. I have decided to make a production calendar. I will label and follow this calendar accordingly. This calendar will signify what I should be doing each week and will guide me to completion.

      In this blog, I will be practicing and assessing my ability to write my own practice lead as I will have to create one for my own magazine. Given the story below:    " The police in this municipality received a call at 3:45 p.m. yesterday afternoon. A woman shouted at the sergeant who answered the telephone. She said: "My son's been beaten. His teacher whipped him this afternoon, and he's all red where she paddled him. Can teachers do that? That's assault and battery, and I want her arrested." Two police officers were sent to the home. They questioned the boy, who is 9 years old. At his mother's insistence, the police officers also inspected the boy's reported injuries. They reported: "We couldn't tell that the boy had been paddled. His fanny didn't look red to us, but we did notice that his pants legs were wet and muddy. As we talked, it became obvious that he boy was lying. He finally admitted that he had stopped to play on the wa...