The identity of the magazine is a travel magazine featuring the beauty of colorado’s outdoors and the environment in colorado. This is seen by the photos featured on the front of the magazine. The magazine also includes significant events upcoming in colorado or that have already occurred. Content found in the magazine includes: ways to minimize carbon footprints, a newly opened building that serves as a meeting for non-profit organizations, and a trail that has finally been reopened after years of being off limits. The table of contents includes information on events hosted in colorado and good restaurants in the state. Basically, the magazine is all based on Colordo’s environment and what it has to offer to its people or people interested in traveling to an outdoorsy destination. Given the content, I would say the audience includes adventurous travelers, residents of the state of colorado, and tourists finding things to do in Colorado.
For the creation of my feature spread I, first wanted to include a spread with only one article throughout the two page spread and was torn between a Colorado or California article. However, I then realized that I was replicating the format of several travel spreads I had researched and failed to put my own spin to it. As a result, I brainstormed the format of two separate mini articles on my two page spread (previous brainstorming mentioned in blog post "PTS spread and table of contents brainstorm layout" went into the construction of this formatting below) : The photos about each article will be in relation to the article below it. Therefore making each page separate articles, on the nature spot I deemed suiting for Colorado and the other for California. For the photos featured above the articles, I had taken panoramic shots and I wanted to include one in the spread. Specifically for Yosemite because of the blue hues and purple hues that I was able to cap...
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