Magazine Research

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Taking an initial look at cross-media production, I begun researching lifestyle magazines. I have created a mood board of different lifestyle magazine covers, giving me a slightly narrower idea of the style of front cover I must produce. 

Definition
I have found two definitions for a lifestyle magazine that I believe to be most fitting and direct in what is expected with in a lifestyle magazine. 

1. Lifestyle magazines, television programmes, and products are aimed at people who wish to be associated with glamorous and successful lifestyles.

2. A lifestyle magazine is popular magazine concerned with lifestyle. It includes a number of men’s magazines, women’s magazines and magazines about health and fitness, tourism, fashion, decorating, or culture. The concept is chiefly used in reference to a magazine’s tone.


 Immediately I noticed the similarity in shot use. Medium Close-ups and portrait style, with the person in focus placed in the centre of the page. This is already giving me an idea of the shot I will use for my own cover. My attention was then drawn to the magazines logo, my particular favourites being LOOK magazine and Vanity Fair. 

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