The magazine uses a consistent house style of red, black, and white across the front cover, contents page, and article pages. The front cover features two hip hop artists in direct address to engage readers. The contents page neatly organizes information in columns and features a prominent image of a popular entertainer. The article pages effectively use a double page spread with images of artists reflecting their "rapper image" and a bold masthead complementing the theme of racing cars. Continuity of layout and design elements tie the magazine together.

1. Analysing The Source front cover
(Magazine)
Bold Masthead
Use of
Iconography
Use of puffs
(Coverlines) clear
and defined: gets
straight to the
point
Direct Mode of
address
Main Cover line
Barcode
Coverlines
(Puffs)

2. Language
The language used on the Front Cover is not particularly personal, you could say the
language used gets straight to the point suggesting the style of the magazine.
Design
The house style is clearly defined in Red: Black and white. The bold fonts used suggest
importance and really stand out the font used on “CASH MONEY, YOUNG MONEY”
looks slightly distorted signifying a gritty urban feel to the magazine. The mast head
uses a heavy shadow making the text stand out, the red and black also complement
each other well, the use of iconography (Microphone) in the mast head displays an
image often associated with music of this genre. The puffs are well placed and are
very much minimal and not busy.
Image
The image used on this front cover contains two well known artists “Birdman” and
“Mack Maine”, who are hip hop artists. By being featured on the magazine they gain
more popularity not only for themselves but also influencing people in particular fans
to but the magazine. “Birdman” is in direct mode of address, the direct gaze helps to
shown individual interaction with each reader. “Mack Maine” is also is direct mode of
address but his body language seems less apparent than “Birdman” suggesting him to
be inferior. Their heads are also overlapping the masthead an effective convention of
magazines.

3. Analysing Contents page
Use of magazine
logo (masthead)
Image of popular
entertainer
Information
neatly organised
and put into
columns
House style is
carried through
to contents page
Puff anchoring
image

4. The contents page is from the magazine “The Source” the
information is clear and simple to read being organised into
columns. The contents page carries through the simple house style
of Red: Black and on this page an off shade of white showing
continuity. Each cover line is defined by a small masthead in bold
red with additional information underneath a general convention in
music magazines. The main image shows rapper “Lil Wayne” in his
signature pose, this image stands out amongst the page as its bright
and clear defining the artists image, the shot used is a mid shot and
is placed well on the contents page. He has the typical image of a
hip hop artists with “bling” and “new era” hats whilst striking a
sometimes controversial pose (illuminati) he has numerous tattoos
and sunglasses on suggesting the whole genre of the magazine. The
text anchoring the image also suggests something controversial or
interesting as he is highly profiled artist.
The whole look of the contents page shows a structured and defined
house style, with organised text (columns) with an image that will
grab readers attention.

5. Bold masthead
Continuity of
house style
apparent
Strapline telling
audience more
information
Bold masthead Image spread
across both
pages is effective
Text in columns
presents a professional
look
Additional
information

6. This article taken from “The Source” magazine is well laid out in
the essence that it covers the double page spread effectively,
it also leave plenty of space for the article to be well placed.
The image features well known artists most importantly
American artist Wale in poses which reflect their “rapper
image”. The mast head is effective as the style of text
complements the image a racing car well. The mast head is
bold in the color white with emphasis on the word “Ride” the
shadow effect used on the text also helps it to stand out
amongst the commanding image. The defined house style of
Red, Black and white is once again seen as shown on the front
cover and the contents page. The use of the checked black
and white squares also reflect the theme of the article based
around racing cars, as the iconography of the checked square
is used a lot in car racing .

7. This article taken from “The Source” magazine is well laid out in
the essence that it covers the double page spread effectively,
it also leave plenty of space for the article to be well placed.
The image features well known artists most importantly
American artist Wale in poses which reflect their “rapper
image”. The mast head is effective as the style of text
complements the image a racing car well. The mast head is
bold in the color white with emphasis on the word “Ride” the
shadow effect used on the text also helps it to stand out
amongst the commanding image. The defined house style of
Red, Black and white is once again seen as shown on the front
cover and the contents page. The use of the checked black
and white squares also reflect the theme of the article based
around racing cars, as the iconography of the checked square
is used a lot in car racing .