DRUMROLL PLEASE...

I'm going to try to keep this one short and sweet because tomorrows will be almost as long as a Harry Potter book. The genre of our magazine has officially been chosen and it is travel!!!! Now on to the next debate of what our title should be. We have narrowed it down to four: Nomadic, Roamer, Excursionist, or Globetrotter (if you don't get the concept, they are all synonyms for traveler). 

On tomorrows agenda, my partner and I will draw a sketch of what our front covers should look like and what the generic outline of the magazine should be so both issues complement each other. While sketching the covers we will try out each title to see which one looks best as the masthead. We will start to put a color palette together and see if we want to use a generic color or font. We will continue doing research on the travel magazine and what our two-page spreads will be on. We will also finalize each location we chose to do for each edition and gather up all our pictures.

As you can tell, tomorrow is going to be a long day... got to get some rest! 

Debate between the genres

Since I've posted my last post, my partner and I have narrowed the genre choices to two. The two choices are a fitness magazine inspired by Women's Health or a travel magazine inspired by Travel and Leisure. As an avid traveler, I wanted to make a magazine on what I love most which is traveling with my family. My partner on the other hand is a fitness freak and wanted to make a magazine on something she loved most. We both decided to do research to prove our points to each other on which magazine genre we should choose.

To do research on the two genres, we sat down and looked through Women's Health magazine and Travel and Leisure Magazine and compared the two and this is what we came up with...
 
Womens Health:
-Usually consists of woman model on front (which may be hard for us to capture)
-Tips for working out
-Bold masthead; color changes
-Flashy coverlines


Travel and Leisure:                                          
-High definition images                                  
-Mostly all pictures of landscape so no need for people to photograph
-Very clean layouts
-Basic coverlines
-Masthead color changes

If Melanie and I chose to do travel it would consist of one issue on New Orleans and a special edition section on Mardi Gras and the other issue would be Miami since it is only a short car ride away to get great pictures. We would find the best restaurants and tourist attractions. If we chose Women's Health we would go to Melanie's gym and take pictures of people working out, diet tips and healthy foods. I promise the next blog post will reveal the genre we chose... I know the suspense is killing you!!


"Women's Health." Women's Health. N.p., n.d. Web. 12 Mar. 2017.
Locker, Melissa, Talia Avakian, Travel + Leisure Staff, Chris Abell, Dobrina Zhekova, Melanie Lieberman, and Rachel Chang. "Travel + Leisure." Travel + Leisure. N.p., n.d. Web. 12 Mar. 2017.