1. The masthead - bold and white which shows its importance. The audience can tell
this is a masthead as it has the biggest font size then the rest of the text on the
front cover. It is based on the left corner on the front cover.
The overall colour scheme consists of
three colours red white and black these
colours signify the hip-hop genre as those
colours associate with the hip hop genre
Headline – its black and bold which tells the
audience that this is the content that’s going to be in
the magazine the audience can tell the headline is
associated with the hip-hop genre as it has a hip-hop
artist a Dr DRE bringing Kendrick Lamar to the scene
after snoop dogg and Eminem who are hip hop
heavyweights as its headline which shows it’s an hip-
Hop music magazine.
The main image has two people who are heavily
involved with the hip hop genre DR DRE and his
prodigy Kendrick Lamar in the this photo we see
both people centrally framed while Kendrick Lamar
is sitting down while DR DRE is standing up behind
him which gives off a sense that he is looking over
Kendrick Lamar which brings in the hip hop genre
where many artists of today are prodigies and they
have mentors looking over them also there are
signifiers in this picture which are associated with
this genre such as jewellery.
Barcode- this is used so
magazine retailers know
who bought the magazine
Cover line- they all relate on
hip hop and the cover lines
are based on the contents
in the magazines.