Amanda Media Studies

     Since I last posted I have been thinking quite a bit about the format of my cover and the title of it. I know I love flowers and since the beginning have been heavily inspired by them but I just realized that it won't go too well with the picture I plan to shoot for the cover. I want the model to be in her police uniform and I feel like that doesn't match the "flower vibe" and although I said I wanted to do the two sides of her I just don't think that it would look nice. I have been researching how to shoot and edit a picture like that but I have yet to see a magazine cover with that idea executed nicely. For that reason, I am just going to focus on one picture of my model and in the feature spread I will look at her "both sides."        For the title, since I am not doing the flowers on the cover I want to change the title to something else: power. My magazines goal is to empower women and the cover will be of my model in a police uniform s...

     Up to now I have been heavily inspired by flowers. I think they are beautiful in the colors they produce and to me represent femininity not just in the traditional sense but also, at least for me, represent empowerment and strength. Specifically I thought of the picture of a woman during the Vietnam war who held up a flower to soldiers. Therefore, I thought to name my magazine "Flowers that Empower," "Flowers" referring to the women that would be featured in the magazine. I decided against it because I just wasn't convinced and I didn't really want to call the women featured flowers because of the connotation (for many people) of flowers being fragile and delicate. I then thought to name the magazine "Women in Bloom" which I liked more. However, I thought it sounded like I was aiming at an adolescent audience by saying that they were "in bloom." Additionally, the title was too wordy so I decided to shorten it to "Bloom."...

I compiled all of my findings into a presentation to show my group members and here is the link!                         https://create.piktochart.com/output/35601894-untitled-presentation Overall, I found that this magazine in particular has an extremely simple layout but very daring colors that appeal to younger generations. Th font is sans serif which is also modern and the models are young as well. The content discussed is relevant to young females because that is their target audience. I have stated this various times through different blog posts and have mentioned that I would like to format and structure my magazine similarly. The color scheme is quite inspiring and I will be taking the yellows, pinks, and blues from the different issues as inspiration. On the other hand, something I'd like to do different is talk more in depth about feminist/women's issues than Nylon does. Otherwise I LOVE how they set up their ...

    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...