Hello people,
I've been thinking about how I want my magazine to look based on the research I have done. At first, I went on Canva and played with a couple of their "Magazine Cover" options to try to get a visual image of how the font would look on a cover. Check it out:
--- This is the font for our masthead, disregard the capital letters in the examples below (the following was decided after I began to play around with the tool).
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| I like how the cover model is the main focus. I want my cover model to give off an elegant, sexy, and confident vibe |
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| I do not like how the cover model's costume design blends in with the background. I want my model's outfit to be cohesive with the colors on the cover page, but I want her to be the main focus and draw the audience's attention. |
In addition to the following I started planning out my table of contents. I have come to notice that in a lot of woman's magazines, there is an ad on one page and the table of contents in the other. In addition, I looked up "table of contents" for both Glamour and Cosmopolitan online, and clicked on Google's "image" tab to get a general idea of how many pages the issues contain. Based on the following, I saw that the average page number ranged from 200-280 pages. While in search for the this, I saw a layout that I really like for my table of contents.
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| Like most magazines targeted for woman, the two page spread contains an ad on the left page, and the table of contents to the right of the page. The table of contents highlights certain articles of the publication and popular topics within the magazine. I particularly like how the topics are stated and articles are separated into the following categories in chronological order. |
Adhering to the following idea, here's a sketch of how I would try to organize my magazine's table of contents :)
The format for the table of contents that I sketched is similar to the one above. Instead of a heel, I was thinking I would make the image of a bathing suit or sandals since I am doing Berkshire's March 2018 Issue, and the picture to the right of that would be of my cover model. The topics that I think I am going to highlight on my title page are the cover reads, health tips, and relationships. The two topics are extremely popular topics for woman in this genre and I think it will entice the readers to buy the magazine.
On another hand, I would like to address something of importance that has drawn my attention. As I was flipping through Cosmopolitan's March 2018 issue, that I bought at Publix, I have come to realize that 80% of the 180 pages in the magazine are ads. Ads on skin care products, makeup, face washes, shampoos... Therefore, although I would already have my four images to satisfy the minimum for this requirement, based on my sketches, I want my two page spread to reflect those in successful, well-established woman's magazines. I'm not sure of the format or articles I want to do yet, but here are some ideas:
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| I feel like this idea would be easy to replicate. I would talk about how to feel comfortable in your spring break bod (or something along those lines), and do an advertisement for a tanning oil on the other page. |
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| Similarly, I can take a picture of a girl striking a pose in her bikini and put a caption on the top right to sell it, and on the other page put an advertisement on a pre-workout, so you can achieve your dream bod! |
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| I can put a workout plan on one page and then do an advertisement for a legging brand on the left. |
I know this is a lot, but hopefully I made it easy to follow, and you like where this is going😁😁😓
Enjoy the rest of your weekend!
Best Regards,
Sof
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PROMAULAYKO, M., & LAGANI, D.K. (Eds.). (2018, March). COSMOPOLITAN. COSMOPOLITAN, 1-180
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