genre research - travel!

Hi again! For this post, I'm going to be looking into the travel genre to see if that's what I may want to pursue for this project. The travel genre interests me because I personally very much enjoy traveling. I also love the idea of travel magazines making any individual place look beautiful and desirable. Travel magazines find beauty in the world in my experience. 

So first, I will be starting with the first part of a magazine. What aspects are common in covers of travel magazines? Well generally the masthead is bold and large to be attractive to the magazine's audience. These magazines are popular in bookstores, so it's important that the masthead grabs the attention of a passerby. Sometimes the mast head will be the location that the magazine is focusing on, which is another way to grab attention. The colors used in fonts and other design aspects usually match the colors of the main image of the cover page. 

When it comes to inside the magazines, travel magazines usually have advertisements from hotels and restaurants in the local area. This is important because in that way the person traveling will get to know the location better. Travel magazines also include a lot of photography of landscapes to display the beauty of each individual place. The magazine may also include pictures of the people in the location being focused on to allow the viewer to get a feel for the place. The color scheme started in the cover page may also be continued throughout the spreads for continuity purposes. The images displayed also usually have bright colors and happy tones to them to make the viewer want to travel there. 

These examples of travel magazines also generally feature the location of the travel magazine, which as I mentioned, is important in recognizing where the viewer of the magazine might want to go. These magazines also use lists like other genres of magazines to allow the viewer to feel as if they're getting something out of the magazine. Like "48 smart travel secrets" in travel. A passerby will be more likely to buy the magazine if they see "travel secrets" that will supposedly aid them on trips. Advice and personal experiences are also commonly written about in these magazines because they allow the reader to get a personal and real feel for the traveling location.

All in all, I found this genre to be very fascinating. I'm going to discuss with my partner as to what genre we will be choosing so I can go deeper into research this week. We are really interested in the travel, fashion, and animal genres.