Case Study Cover Page

IMAGE

This shot type is a close up which shows the artist facial expressions . We are able to see that in this image he is wearing a silver chain, a watch , a hat and a ring. The lighting focuses on the center of his face however is the rest has an dark shade.

CONVENTIONS OF PAGE LAYOUT

The Master Head is a bright vibrant red which could be used to present the rage within the artist as he presents anger facial expressions. The bold solid font gives the magazine a stern sophisticated appearance helping portray their artist as serious.The cover line immediately grabs the audience attention as it mentions a well known artist being bad. The magazine has two colours the primary colour being Red and the Secondary white this allows key words and sentence to stand out. The text colour has an obvious relationship with the image the artist T.I looks very angry the colour red can be associated with this emotion.

LANGUAGE

Well known artist names are scattered over the page such as Waka Flocka and Jay-z this text helps grab audience attention, however the sentence " Keri Hilson has been a very bad girl " This would get the audience attention as it begins to make them question what did she do ?

GENRE

The appearance of the artist correctly conforms to the stereotypical view of Hip Hop artist. The serious facial expression presents his attitude , T.I's silver chain watch and ring portray him as a successful Hip Hop artist that enjoys spending money and showing off. The connotation of the clothing and props are that he likes living in the fast lane