The music genre of ‘Jet’ is a R&B magazine. The target audience for this particular magazine is for female dominate of the age 16-30 years of age. This can be shown through the main mage as ‘Keisha Cole’ is around 20 years of age. The main image is of ‘Keisha Cole’ an R&B solo artist. The main image relates to the music genre as she is an R&B singer.

The mise en scene which is encoded through the camera shot taken of the main image is a medium close up shot. The effect this has on the audience is the main image is important and also the camera shot used helps to signify ‘Keisha Coles’ action as her arms are crossed onto her shoulders and she is looking down this connotes that there is more to music as her actons are usually is how Keisha portrays herself to the audience.

Keisha Cole looks fashionable and the use of makeup used helps to portray this as she looks heavily made up and also through the use of costume as she is wearing a leopard print dress which reflects the repetition of colour on the straplines which are black and brown as the use of repetition helps establish unified cohesive design but also the use of colours also goes well with the magazine, but also the use of makeup of the brown eye shadow also helps to how this.. Also the use of props used which is shown through the use of jewellery of black and gold relates to the font colours used as straplines on the magazine and also the use of white earrings helps anchors the colour of the masthead and some of the straplines on the page that are the same colour for example ‘Jet’ and ‘singer keeps it real about her families business and her interest’. The poison of this is beside the main image on the left as this helps the reader to easily identify the main image is anchoring the main strapline. The setting of the magazine is shown to set in a recording studio as this helps to show the genre of the magazine but also the main image as it relates to the main image as it gives clues to ‘Kashia Cole’ is maybe doing a new single or album as the setting helps to signify this.

The typeface used on the masthead is white and bold however the font is different its almost italic as this helps the masthead to stand out and to be easily recognized by the audience. The straplines on the magazine are on the left side of the magazine and typeface used is bold as this also helps the audience identify what the straplines are next to the main image this connotes that the main image is the main focus although the straplines are important the layout of the magazine is that the main image and straplines are almost separated as this helps the target audience to simply understand the magazine. The website and barcode are also placed at the bottom of the magazine this shows.. To help to interest the reader there is also a rhetorical question used ‘whatever happened…. Repaul? This helps to involve and hook the reader. The magazine consists of three layers. The layers are the background and the main image then the masthead and straplines and copy.

The visual and verbal path of movement that the reader’s eye follows through the page of the ‘Jet’ magazine of which is the main conventions on the magazine is the main image to the main strapline that anchors the image to the masthead. The magazine consists of four layers used on this particualr magazine which is the background then the mastahead to the main image then the main straplines. The issue number, barcode and date are written in smaller fonts and are placed in the corner. These are key conventions for a magazine and are mainly used to purchasing reasons