The document discusses conventions for magazine covers featuring rappers and hip hop artists. It notes that covers commonly depict the artists with designer clothes, money, guns, and cigarettes to portray wealth and power. They are often shown with angry or intimidating facial expressions. The covers aim to represent each artist's star image while maintaining a common style. The document also provides guidelines for magazine cover pages, including using bold headlines and short, memorable taglines to attract readers.

1. Magazine
Productions
By Arya Elpula

2. NARRATIVE
 What is it about?
 It is about feature guest posts/articles from
experts in the music field , a person who is trying
to promote his song or track in order to recognize
his presence of him in the music industry and talks
about his lifestyle as people are interested in how
famous people live on with their day-to-day lives
and also talks about his recent album as how it
and showing how confrontational he is.

3. Magazine Covers –Conventions
 Hip-hop/Rap conventions Special terminology – Swag, G, yo.
 Materials: guns, chains/jewellery, hats (slanted sometimes), cigarettes, cigars,
stacks of money.
 Designer clothes
 Artists are mainly black but other races are noticeable (Eminem for example).
 Also mainly American but other countries apply (Plan B, Professor Green) Each
rapper who appears on the front cover will be shown with his star image and
personal identity but also shown in a way that looks like all other rappers (to create a
common feel)
 Holds a stereotypical view of women as being sex objects. Close up or low angle
shot show that they are big, powerful and strong They a have a growl or an angry
facial expression to look intimidating and powerful.
 Artist’s personalities and the lyrics in their songs try to make out that the artists are
successful
 Powerful and rich.
 Artists will be in front of the magazine masthead to show that they are powerful and it
makes them stand out.

4. Magazine cover page
The headline needs to be in bold as it is
and at the top of any headings beneath it
as this indicates to the audience what the
nature of the article is about.
2) Strapline should be visual as the text or
phrase must be short and memorable. As
this is good for marketing. It catches a lot
of customers attention
3)There should be a cutline which is cut
out of an article and placed in a larger font
to attract readers.

5. Magazine Contents page

6. Representation
 What is the purpose of it; to promote and
to generally heighten the people of the
star?
 Yes, as in this case the star would talk about
his song or album that is about to release and
he promotes in order to increase his sales
and reputation through “shout outs” of his
work and also beneficial for the magazine
production