Amanda Media Studies

    Based on all that I have discussed in my previous genre research posts, I believe that the target audience for nylon are women in their early to mid twenties who are feminists or at least interested in motivating and supporting themselves and other women. I deduced this from the models, the colors and fonts, and the topics they talk about.      As you may have noticed all the models are generally young, although they are mostly in their late twenties to early early thirties I still believe the magazine is aimed for women younger than them because they are like inspiration, someone to look up to. The models talk from experience and represent the women that others want to be in the next few years. You can tell this from the way they talk in the spreads. Like I mentioned in an earlier most Gabourey Sibiles talks about her youth (I grew up pretending I was okay when I wasn't) and so does Abbi Jacobson when she mentions that when she was younger she didn't thi...

     Just skimming over the feature spreads I knew that I loved the layout, font, color package, and photography involved in the Gabourey and the Abbi issues. However, I did not like most of the visual components in the Marina issue. The Marina issue is older than the other two which explains why the issues constantly have differences in design.          All of the spreads are focused on the model in the front cover of the magazine which makes sense because if the reader is purchasing the magazine from the cover alone it's likely because of who is on it. There are various photographs of the model in the spread (one in every other page, if not all) which is something I really liked. Additionally, I liked that the pictures ran into the next page because it makes the magazine flow easily and it makes it so the layout is not bland, square, and uptight. The only catch is that I was looking at the magazine online but I don't quite know how that wou...

    Honestly, I have never really paid much attention to the table of contents of a magazine so when I started looking at this one I didn't know what to look at exactly. However, I did know that I liked this specific style of table of contents. Nylon's table of contents is simple and 2-paged. I figured two pages is appropriate for the magazine's length which is approximately 150-170. The pages always features one woman in each page. They are of different ethnicity and always embody boldness and confidence, as you can see in the April table of contents. Usually the models are looking at the camera to demonstrate their confidence and to really strike the reader. I like this because it creates intimacy between the reader and the model as if they had something to say that you want to hear about. For me it shows the strength and uniqueness of women which is something I want to demonstrate in my own magazine.      There are no more images aside from that of the ...

     After much thought I decided that I wanted my magazine to center around women of all ages and ways to empower them whether it is through music, beauty, or fashion. I actually had trouble finding magazines that could convey this message because while there were many magazine about beauty and fashion its focus was not necessarily empowering women but rather using them as models and encouraging other women to change themselves to be like those models. This is something I found quite troubling but it only inspired me to search further and to create my magazine. I did find magazines in the feminism genre online but they were not available for me to open and see without a subscription. Eventually I found "Nylon" on the Miami-Dade Public Library system and although it is not exactly how I want my magazine to be, it is in the genre.     I focused on 3 covers and while I analyzed them I noticed that the masthead is always in the same place and it is in sans s...

     Putting together my mood board for my magazine really helped me realized what kinds of colors, fonts, textures, and photos I want for my actual magazine. It also helped direct my idea from a vague concept to a more specific one.      As I was looking through the different magazines from which I cut my pictures and words, I realized that I want a brighter color scheme to reflect my magazines theme about happiness and optimism.  In the image I tried to include a lot of green and yellow with pops of red, which I circled in red to the left. At first, I had issues picking out the colors. I had purple and pink in mind, but I had to go with yellow and green because it just fit my magazine so well. The green is very natural looking and bright like a grass green rather than the darker shades of green like olive which will relate to the natural vibe I want to go for. The yellow is bright like the sun and exudes cheerfulness which will be the theme of m...

     I have learned much about how I want my magazine to look and how to set up my presentation through my classmates’ projects about ten different magazines, their covers, and their house styles. Each project talked about a different magazine and the unique features of their covers. Each of these features seemed to repeat themselves in order to set up a specific theme or “house style.”      As I watched the presentations, there were some magazines that stood out to me. One that particularly caught my eye was  ESPN . I love how it had a minimalist design; I thought it was clean and polished.  It made me realize I want to go for a similar look for my magazine. The only thing I would add is more anchorage, like for example in  Rolling Stone . In fact, something I liked about  Rolling Stone  is the masthead. It was always in the same place and more or less the same size, something that was not apparent in  ESPN . Additional...