Magazine Article research

Below is a selection of magazine articles at which have been taken from XXL. XXL is an American Hip hop magazine although it has many articles on all types of hip hop people from Jay Z to Asher Roth to Eminem. XXL maintains a popular website, which provides daily hip hop news, original content and content from the magazine. This is likely going to be the type of magazine article which we will generate ideas from. This is because it is current but also fits with our genre. I picked out several of my favourite articles and will use various methods of these to generate our own article for C.DOT. The research is shown below:

From this magazine article the first thing which stood out to me was the name of the artist in different fonts and sizes at which surrounded a photo of the Temi himself. This is something I feel would look very good on our magazine as C.DOT isn't a long name and I think that this is a good method for generating publicity as people are then likely to remember C.DOT name as he is an up coming artist. This article is two pages at which seems to occur a lot in XXL magazines and therefore we are likely to replicate this. I like the right hand corner exclusive however we are more likely to not have the word separated. Like this magazine article there will be some stand out sentences from Connor himself, this is seen in a lot of articles.  

From this magazine article you can see that this is also a two page article with a whole page taken up by the artist himself. This is a method at which promotes the artist. I liked the quote "life of a shooting star" this appealed to me as I was thinking we could change this to "Life of a Rising Star" to promote C.DOT as a new artist. However this article is fairly short at which we want to give our audience as much information as we can about C.DOT.

This article is a two page article at which is a similar theme throughout XXL magazines. This is similar to the one above at which is mainly promoting the artist. As he is such a well known artist his initials already tell the audience who he is whereas C.DOT is a rising rapper. I like the layout however I think that the article is too short which doesn't provide enough information about C.DOT.

This magazine article is also a double page spread. In this article the photo of Nas takes up 1 and a half of the page. This is the first article at which the photo has a background which is in the gym. The text has a specific font throughout the article at which also has a stand out line which is shown in the larger font. At the start of the column similar to others there is a large character.

This article is also a double page spread at which also has the artist on a full side of the page. The column itself is divided by the artist on a motorbike at which shows he is the centre of attention.