Research

Today I researched other hip hop magazines in order to learn common themes between them. I looked for language used in the puffs and titles and looked to what kind of language was used. In most of the magazines the language is very informal and some use well known slang in titles and captions. One big common design theme is almost every hip hop magazine contains a lot of red on the cover. This was a factor in our decision to make the font color red on our magazine cover. Another thing that was common of hip hop magazines is in the picture of the model on the cover they always have a very serious face. The models are made to look almost intimidating to the reader and give off a very serious tone.

We also looked at the other hip hop magazines for conventions. We looked at things such as anchorage, and where they placed certain things on their cover. The magazines almost always have a picture of a certain artists, and the largest piece of text on the cover is the artist's name. In the banner the magazines included either one of that main articles in the magazine or their slogan if they had one. In the sweet spot on the cover the magazines almost always had the title of their main article there. This research helped to make us begin to think about how we would use certain conventions in our magazine,