This document summarizes conventions used in magazines, including: - Main conventions like mastheads, bylines, and captions - Additional conventions like cover stories and kickers - Genre conventions commonly seen in hip hop magazines, such as aggressive fonts, simple colors, and large artist images - The informal mode of address used in hip hop magazines to engage readers.

1. SUMMARY OF RESEARCH
INTO SIMILAR PRODUCTS
TASK 5
THOMAS SMITH

2. CONVENTIONS OF FORM
NOT ALL OF THEM ARE LISTED BUT HERE ARE THE MAIN ONES…
• Masthead 
• Standfirst 
• Byline 
• Caption 
• Coverline 

3. CONVENTIONS OF FORM - PART 2
• Cover Story 
• Feature 
• Serif Font  Font styles with curls attached
to them.
• Sans Serif Font  Plain fonts with no curls.
• Kicker  Few words after a story’s lead set in
a larger font than the body text of the article.

4. CONVENTIONS OF GENRE – HIP HOP
• Aggressive/Belligerent/Violent/Thug Life
• Simple colours like Black, Red, White, Grey
• Some use of aggressive serif fonts
• The artist is always large scaled with an angry or a “don’t mess with
me” facial expression
• Usually a large masthead with the artist in front of it or has been
slightly modified to fit the mood/theme whilst retaining the core logo
(Video games like Call of Duty and a some books/films slightly alter
the core logo to fit the theme on every release)

5. MODE OF ADDRESS
• The mode of address/language is mostly informal in hip hop
magazines. This makes it easier to read so the reader can just
skim through the magazine.