Second Genre Research- WOMEN'S EMPOWERMENT!!!!

Genre: Women's Empowerment

Genre conventions:

• Content
• Empower women
• Include art by women
• Discuss political topics revolving women
• Advice
• Include the idea of feminism
• Production
• Cover picture usually has a close up or full body shot of a female
• Inside pages have white backgrounds
• Color schemes of each magazine are varied, there aren't any colors that they tend to include

Magazine sample #1:

• Tom Tom:

Tom Tom magazine is a magazine about female drummers. It encourages women to pursue percussion and includes art in the form of music. This magazine gives women advice about how to be a powerful female performer and inspire other women.

Magazine Sample #2

• The Riveter Review:

The Riveter Review is a magazine that promotes literary art that women create. This magazine is entirely about the art women create and encourages feminism. The art work often is about empowering women and discussing issues revolving women.

Other examples:

• Women of More magazine https://issuu.com/womenofmoremagazine/docs/sep_oct_publication_dr._sonja_strib
• The F Word magazine https://issuu.com/femmag0/docs/f_word_vol_vi_
• Wear Your Voice magazine https://wearyourvoicemag.com/
• Bust magazine https://bust.com/magazine/feb-mar-2021.html
• Bitch magazine https://www.bitchmedia.org/issue/80

Genre Database- PETS!

 Hi! The genre I selected was pets magazines and their target audience is pet owners.

Genre conventions:

• Content
• Has to do with pet and human interaction- how pets impact humans life and how we impact theirs
• Pet care- pet safety, health care, food recommendations, cat litter, recently many magazines are talking about pets and cannabis
• Pet problem solving- housing,
• Pet advice
• Crafts- treats, scratching posts, pet toys
• Pet behavior, training
• Advertisements for pet products- catcam, pet food, health products, etc.
  
• Production techniques
• Always have an animal on the front cover by themselves depending on the magazine. For example, dog magazines will have a dog and cat magazines will have a cat
• Colors often used on the front cover are: pink, black, red, yellow, orange, and blue
• Very popular magazines have a magazine for cats and for dogs

This genre is typically marketed as a fun, helpful tool for pet owners. 

Magazine samples:

Modern dog

• Sample #1: Modern Dog magazine (fall 2018 version) has articles about how CBD affects canines and whether it's good for them which gives information about dogs health. Following this article, there are advertisements and descriptions for pet CBD products.  Another featured article is one about if whether or not dogs should be allowed to sleep in our beds. In this article the writer discusses reasons why people like sleeping with their dogs and have a vet explain the negative effects. This is about how dogs impact our life. The cover of the magazine features a dog alone and text and banners in red, pink, yellow, and blue.

Modern Cat

• Sample #2: One of Modern Cat magazine’s featured articles is about pet behavior and how to read your cat's body language. Another one is about CBD and cats and again has advertisements of pet CBD products. There is also another article featuring advertisements about how to incorporate cat products into your life. The front cover of the fall/winter 2018 edition of the magazine has an image of a cat by itself and the colors: pink, red, blue, and yellow.

Other examples

Dogster

The Bark

Catster

Animal Wellness

Your Dog

Thanks for reading!

Exploring unfamiliar things- Hello!!

Hello!

My name is Tatiana. On this blog I will be documenting the creation of my portfolio project. When I was first told about the portfolio project I was a bit scared and intimidated but throughout this course so far I have gained a bit more confidence in my capabilities. I chose to do a magazine, instead of a film opening because I really love photography and writing. In my life, a majority of the media I consume isn't primarily reading and I thought that it would be interesting to create media I'm not as familiar with.The main genres I'm considering doing are pets or lifestyle/culture. I have always had a passion for animals and I have a lot of experience with them growing up around many animals. I also love the topic of things that have been shaping our culture and living a healthy lifestyle mentally and physically. With the pets genre, I think the biggest challenge would be finding topics that are original. A lot of magazines I have seen have many articles discussing the same things over and over. For the lifestyle/cultural magazine, I have many ideas I could use but I'm having trouble pinpointing one I would really like to do. I love all forms of art, activism, and awareness so I'm hoping to somehow incorporate that into my project. Thanks for reading!