General Comments about the progression of my work

At the start of this project i wished to produce a contemporary  R&B music magazine. However as i went through the process and did more research i discovered the sub genre of PBR&B. This particularly interested me and was an idea that i had in mind, that i had found had actually been classified into a specific sub genre of R&B. This gave me more scope and room to challenge conventions and take features and aspects from a few different genres to produce my final product.  I was glad that my research allowed me to find this as it let me produce something a bit different and unique from already, pre-existing R&B music magazines. As a result of all this the style i was going for changed quite drastically throughout the process, and this can be seen especially by comparing my first draft product and my final product. I believe my first draft product follows a style which is more typical of the conventional R&B style, however my final product is more representative of the PBR&B sub genre i wished to include and of the genre and general intentions i had for my magazine which was to be predominantly an R&B magazine, however with other genres intertwined to create something a bit different.

PBR&B Aspect of my magazine

PBR&B has several different terms, but is mainly a term used to classify an emerging and stylistic approach to contemporary R&B. This takes into account the fusion of different genres of music with R&B, such as alternative and indie and hip hop. This is something which i wish to account for in my music magazine as this was the main inspiration behind my title. I wish to include some elements that i have looked at more independently, such as clash magazine and Q which i have done some evaluations of earlier in the project. Some artists that i have looked at to inspire this aspect of the magazine include Frank Ocean, Miguel and The Weeknd. I will look at some of the styles also and try and reflect this in my final product.  

Some of the styles seen by such artists that belong to the sub genre of PBR&B seem to have more quirky styles. Some of these make the styles seem more similar to that that would be worn by alternative and indie stars and some from hip hop. Therefore i will try and represent this in some way, possibly through the use of images and my artists in my final product.