Magazine - Genre Research 3 - NATIONAL WILDLIFE

The cover of this magazine has a great picture of a fox standing in a field looking into the distance during the sunset with a blurry background to add focus on the fox. The top of the cover has the titles of articles within the magazine as well as the page number for each article. The whole cover has the same font and most of the words are white besides the top talking about the articles. All the pictures used in the magazine are all great with great lighting and they just look really good overall. The magazine has an article that shows off some art from an artist that does mostly animal related art work like a shark built from washed up trash and more. The types of articles used in this magazine are nature related and help nature like one talking about solutions to algal blooms and another talking about taking care of the wildlife and another one talking about invasive species. This magazine is the first to have articles that also talk about sea animals and what they do. Overall the magazine is made as a mixture of art and nature and it makes for a really good looking magazine with beautiful pictures and great articles.

Magazine - Genre Research 2 - LWR LIFE

From here on out I decided to change the genre of my magazine from a movie/TV related magazine to a more animal focused magazine. The new magazine I chose is more animal and nature related and the cover has a man feeding his bear in a fenced in field with a small pond that also seems to have more bears out of focus in the background and a forest in the background. The colors used are very natural and simple colors mostly green and brown and the title of the magazine is also green and white and the other text used is all white. Most of the ads used are for housing out in the country and for furniture and a few pages with multiple ads. Most of the articles on the magazine are animal related one talks about a man who owns a bear and includes some facts on the bottom of the page about the type of bear and the family. Another article talks about a bird sanctuary and what they do and information on tours as well as some more bullet point facts on the sanctuary. The types of photos used are of animals or drone shots of the land overall most of the pictures are fairly colorful. Overall I like the way they made the magazine and the types of articles used in the magazine the pictures specifically are very nice visually and really well done overall.

Magazine - Genre Research

The first magazine I picked out to go over was an Entertainment Weekly magazine because it fits the genre i'm looking at right now. The cover has Jennifer Aniston and Reese Witherspoon together and they take up a majority of the cover. The top of the magazine it shows some stuff about that the magazine will cover like The Mandalorian and The Good Place along with other shows. Most of the advertisements on this magazine are for TV shows with new seasons coming soon or new shows coming soon. The types of articles you'll find on this magazine are for TV shows mostly and a few early looks for TV shows. Although TV and movies are this magazines main priority they also have a few ads towards games and even some books. besides ads and early news for movies and TV shows they also have some celebrity interviews and news. Overall the magazine is good and goes over a lot of topics that would be interesting towards their target audience.

Project Selection - My Decision

Between the two choices I think the magazine project would be the best fit for me. I chose the magazine project because think I am more prepared for it with all the journalism related stuff we've done this year as well as the magazine analysis. Although the film project was intriguing I don't know exactly what I would do for it and how I would do it. For my magazine project I was thinking of doing a movie or TV related  newspaper that way I can still have something related to movies in my project. As of right now I don't have any plans to work with anyone else but that may change sometime later. The type of magazines I want do are movie or TV related magazines like The Hollywood reporter or Empire. The magazine will cover stuff like upcoming movies or TV shows as well as interviews and early looks towards upcoming shows like my magazine did during the magazine analysis project. Overall I would feel more confident working on the magazine project because I already have an idea of what I want to do and I feel a little more experienced in writing.