The Journey Begins

Today, the commencement of my magazine publication process began with my admiration of other successful magazines as I looked to Time magazine as well as National Geographic magazine for inspiration. The intended target audience for National Geographic is 13-27 years old, who are curious, passionate individuals; while, the intended target audience for Time magazine is more like 18-32 years old, who are educated, average Americans. I feel as though my magazine should be produced for a target audience that I can relate to because the process will comprise a natural sensation and resonate ease within the readers. Therefore, similar to the target audience of National Geographic and Time, the target audience for my magazine would be 16-30 years old.

         

Moreover, upon my viewing of the magazines, a common factor that I instantly noticed between the two is that they both utilized a border on their cover. For National Geographic, the company has a bright yellow border typically surrounding most of their content matter, including cover photo and story as well as headlines. For Time, the company places a vibrant red border around their same material of content matter. As a result from these observations, as of right now, I plan to place a bright sky blue border on the cover for my magazine. The other two magazine utilized one of the three primary colors, which are red, blue, and yellow; therefore, I felt that it would be appropriate to utilize the primary color that had not been used, which is blue, and yet, have it in a hue that is eye-catching and eye-appealing. Not only that, but I believe utilizing a blue border would be successful for my magazine because, according to studies, such as one conducted at http://m.livescience.com/34105-favorite-colors.html, blue is most people's favorite color, more specifically, my intended target audience's favorite color.

After today, I plan to focus on the name of my magazine and what it will encompass.

Work Cited:
"Pie Chart: Humanity's Favorite Colors." LiveScience.com. N.p., n.d. Web. 12 Mar. 2016. <http://m.livescience.com/34105-favorite-colors.html>.