Comparison of My Magazine images

By Jack Bonser

I decided to call my artists album “Life” this is because, as I have mentioned before, the lyrics of typical rap artists songs are stories or things that have happened to the artist during their Life, hence the name of the album.The blurred out effect on the background connotes the fact that the artist almost reveals his life inside, in the lyrics.

Here my artist (to the right) is posing in front of a brick wall, to connote the urban/ street genre. Above is the artist Wiz Khalifa posing using the ‘Eastside’ hand signal, these are conventional between rap artists.

The main dominant image of the page, again shows the artist posing, in this case pointing to the fact file, giving the sense that he is revealing himself to his readers. As I mentioned before had signals/poses’ are conventional throughout all street/urban artists. The smaller tile image on the very left hand side, gives the sense that the artist is a sort of ‘Rude-Boy’ feeling.

The biggest image at the bottom of the page, gives the reader direct address between them and the artist, which gives the reader something that they can relate back to the artist.The image in the middle is of my artist in the schools car park, this again connotes the urban side of the genre. The bottom right image is of my artist with a brick wall in the background, which again connotes the urban side of the genre. This image also gives direct address to the reader.