Magazine Project Genre Research- Health

Health magazine, a dieting and weight loss platform, guides women towards a healthier lifestyle. In April of 2014, Brooke Burke-Charvet is depicted in the center of the magazine in a pair flashy neon-yellow pants and a black top. Around her are topics surrounding the monthly articles inside the magazine; weight loss, allergy cleanse, emotional wellness, and dieting. All of the topics are in coordinating fonts and attractive colors so that they do not clash with her outfit. The use of black, gray, and orange font color makes the product more visually attractive. The title 'Health' is in the same bold font as Shape and Health which makes sense because all health and fitness magazines look very similar to each other. On every issue of Health there is a phrase "Happy Begins Here" which ties all of the issues together and creates uniformity. There is also a bright blue circle in the top right corner which gives the audience the name of the cover model and the big story in that months issue  The blue color draws your eyes to it automatically and is helpful to know more about the contents of the magazine. The pictures on the cover, table of contents, and articles seem to all be posed which makes the piece attractive but less believable. The pictures include foods, women exercising, or closeups of women wearing makeup. The ads between the articles consist of skincare products, healthy foods, medicinal products, athletic apparel, and technology. The advertisements appear frequently throughout the beginning of the magazine and are placed in between all of the articles; the articles are normally 7 to 10 pages apart. Health magazine has a distribution number of about 1.4 million and if my group were be published it would probably have about 200,000 when compared to Health. The magazine has also been awarded General Excellence in 1994 and the same year they received Best Single Issue-Article.  



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