Magazine Genre Research

My group-mate and I have decided to make our project a travel magazine. I have researched magazines of the same type and gathered information from the Vail Valley magazine. The cover of this magazine has the title, a photo of a woman fishing in a stream, and her name off to the side. The cover also lists some of the articles that can be found inside the magazine. The title "Vail Valley" is in a special font in the colors red and white; this must be consistent on all of the issues of their magazines. One of the article titles is "New Eagle County Bike Trail." This appeared on page 22. It is a short article that explains a new bike trail open to all people and included a brief interview with the governor. Another article is "Camping Glamping and Cabins." This article is a few pages long from 42-48. The majority of these pages are photos of the locations that they write about. The actual article part talks about the camping locations and what their is to do; trying to persuade people to go there. The advertisements in this magazine are mainly for outdoors type stuff. For example there is an advertisement for running shoes and also camping supplies. The distribution number of this magazine is 72,000 and it is an award-winning magazine. It has won the local Torch Award in Vail.

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