With a better understanding of photos, I now have to dive deeper into my genre of lifestyle. What I mean is that I need to grasp how I can get everything to flow on paper. So, let's begin studying the typical page composition of a lifestyle magazine.
The cover page of a lifestyle magazine would typically include a high-quality image. Since I'm working with a partner, we are both doing lifestyle magazines, however I chose to go with a foodie edition. So, the cover page would feature a food item, and my feature article would be related to that dish, but the other pages would be that of any other lifestyle magazine whether that may be adverts for health & wellness or travel destinations.
An example of a cover page that I would go for
Although the font of the table of contents is small, while it is a food edition magazine it still includes other aspects of lifestyle such as home decor.
Another example
Alright, now moving on to more so of how I should lay everything out. After a bit I found out layouts called "Full Spread" and "Double Spread". A full spread would contain an image with the title and caption on one page. Designed a bit more for fast-paced content, so would not be too beneficial for me. A double spread would be better as I would be able to include a picture of said dish for my feature article and include the recipe and some info.
An example of a double page spread with the image of the dish, some background info, and recipe with instructions.
This was a relatively short one, but this is more so just a general idea of what I can expect to be working with. My next posts would be more technical and in depth on conventions surrounding these kinds of magazines as well as doing research on target audience.
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