NEA BRIEF

  4.  Analyse 2 magazine front covers and 2 contents pages. As well as an online website of your choice.

4. Analyse 2 magazine front covers and 2 contents pages. As well as an online website of your choice. Front cover 1

  3.  Hearst Magazines – research, explore and write a short report on this institution, ideology and the publications they make: Hearst  Magazines UK is one of the country's most profitable titles .  Their goal is to   create premium, purposeful content that helps our audiences and partners strive   thrive and get more out of life. They have created world-famous brands such as Bazaar, Esquire, Harpers, Cosmopolitan and Housekeeping. Hearst reach a quarter of the entire UK population. Hearst operation offers products authority with stamps of approval from trusted brands which will leave the audience more confident on believing. Hearst have been active since 1922. Hearst are known to create best-in-class content and experiences that inform, entertain, enrich and inspire. They help their audiences take action, improve their lives and feel positive.

2.Define what a lifestyle magazine is and what they include – 100 words Lifestyle magazines consist of the interests, opinions, behaviours, and behavioural orientations of an individual, group, or culture.  For the front cover it is crucial to focus on topics such as entertainment, fashion, health and beauty, tourism, well- being and leisure. Lifestyle magazines are made to share creative vision through articles, photographs and interviews etc. Lifestyle magazines are the consumer magazines that target any specific audience. They are filled with colourful graphics and photographs.   To make a lifestyle magazine functional it needs to include magazine elements such as a mast head, issue and date line, main image, supporting cover lines and barcode.  

 The Brief: You work for an independent media production company. You have been given the task of producing one front cover and the contents page(s) of the first two editions of a new lifestyle magazine that is being launched by Hearst and two pages for the working website for the magazine. Contents pages can be either single or double page spread. The webpages must promote the new magazine to its target audience and enable fans to interact with the content.