Image of Dizzee rascal looking

mischievous with an over the

shoulder look while spray
painting the background. This
shows the rebellious character
that he achieves to show in the
magazine. This character
relates to the rock genre of the
magazine as he personifies the
rebellious stereotype rock
conveys, it is also a symbol in
rap sometimes which is where
Dizzee has adapted from which
merges the conventions of both
genres.
There is no obvious grid layout
with the main image of this
spread but it is clearly placed in
the middle of the background
and it could be suggested that
the magazine has used the rule
The language of this double
spread, an example of play on
words: From rags to riches,
suggesting that he used to be
poor and has achieved a lot in
his life. By replacing the word
rags for tags this implies that
he used to use graffiti before he
became famous, which shows
his bad side to him and also
suggesting his is a regular guy.
Not only this, but the language
in the main title From tags to
riches integrates with the main
image because the graffiti that
is in the main image is often

The scattered beer bottles at the bottom of this page also suggests to the
messy background of the main image and could also show that Dizzee is
representing a young and care-free perception into the magazine and
could also give the audience an insight to what he might be like behind the
scenes, enticing us to read more. It also furthers the genre of rock and rap
as alcohol is seen as something that can be stereotyped as bad.

The messy, unclear and

multi-coloured background
could also suggest the
genre of the magazine and
could express Dizzees
personality as he is the
centre of attention. By
further choosing the
background to be graffiti it
implies his rap
past/background.
By choosing Dizzee to wear

a red jacket it also fits in

with the colour scheme
from the magazine name
NME which is the same
colour red. This colour red
is used in all pages that I
have analysed. This is
The use
of the space
called
branding
the on this
double page spread uses Is
useful as I think the target
audience will be a young
one and therefore will not
want to read a mass
amount, the main image and
title of this spread only
leaves a small amount for
the article. Therefore this
makes the audience feel like
The overall impression given to this double page spread is showingthey
theare
past
notand
reading a mass
background to this celebrity and that music can often be a mixture amount
of messy
at a pasts.
time. From

tags to riches suggests that the text is about Dizzee Rascals past before he became
famous. From rags to riches also implies that Dizzee used to be poor and come from a
rough background, this is a stereotype and representational issue that is found as many
citizens see black mischievous males who commit crimes to automatically be bad people
which leads to stereotyping in general of black men/boys on the streets. Therefore Dizzee
could be opening this stereotype to tell his story of how he became rich from a
stereotyped background. There is also a stereotype linked with rock and rap so it is