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The Left Third is very easy to spot, This is due to the red and white XXl and you can easily tell that's its XXl if you you only saw the left third

The Masthead does follow the usual codes and conventions of XXI regarding the colour and font of the masthead

High Key Lighting is used to highlight his facial expressions and pull you in and make you feel his emotions

Direct Address is used to encourage you to buy it and make you think that he wants you to buy it

The rest of the usually things included like Selling Line, Puffs, Pugs and Screamers aren't included as this is a very simplistic cover and they want you to focus on A$AP ROCKY s that's who this edition is based on. 

Colour Scheme

The colour scheme to this magazine is fairly simplistic and follows the usual codes and conventions of an XXL magazine contents page. As you can see its has a red white and black colour scheme. This contents page follows this and can clearly be directed round the magazine due to basic house style and the way things are positioned (The Left Third). Overall this contents page contents page is very good and engaging.

Layout
The layout of this contents page is quite simplistic and only includes the basic necessary information that a contents page would include. This is the usual style of a XXL magazine, This is very popular as i can see where everything is down the left third unlike NME which spread things all across their page occasionally making it hard to read.


Photography 

This contents page challenges the usual conventions of a magazine cover as they usually have about 2+ pictures at medium close up where as this contents page has 1 picture as a wide shot. This is because they want you to know Chris Brown is the main focus. We cant see his face as that leaves us in suspense on who it is and only if you read on you will find that out therefore engaging you.

This is a magazine cover from XXL it features a rapper called Rick Ross  on one side. In this picture his is holding a bottle of champagne and has white balloons in the background, This could be a indication that he is celebrating something showing that he is famous and doing well for him self and also shows the money he has.This font technique on the other page may have been used on the page to create a sense of uniqueness and style showing that he is unique and doesn't follow trends. Overall I believe that this is a very good magazine cover and shows us a glimpse of life as a rapper.