Magazine Project Genre Research- Women's Health

Cover:

Women's Health Magazine is a magazine that covers women's health, fitness, nutrition, and lifestyle. The majority of Women's Health cover pages are of a woman in a slimming, small outfit, covering the whole page (top to bottom) and a plain white background. This issues cover is of Zoe Saldana in a bright red outfit, making the cover page stand out to the readers. The titles vary in color between issues, but they tend to be a solid bright color, in bold but not all capitalized, with the words being the largest of the all the words on the page. Like the other health magazines, surrounding the woman on the front are words in all different colors, sizes and fonts. The subtexts are slogans, titles of articles in this issue, or quotes that draw the reader in, thus catching their attention to want to be like her by reading this magazine. Just like previously researched 'Shape Magazine', there is a small subtext of words right about the first word, in this case 'women's', that is an inspirational or relevant piece of text that ads to the overall layout and attractiveness.

Content: 

The magazine's main articles are listed on the front cover talking about how to get fit at the gym, how to achieve abs, the right foods to eat in dieting, and clothing to help show off the body achieve with working out and healthy living. Every few pages there is a main article, but most of the ads are clumped in sections in between each article.The advertisements listed are beauty, food, and wellness ads to help benefit the overall goal of the magazine. The main articles listed in the table of contents are spread out, making the reader flip through pages of ads to find their desired material. The articles are about 7-10 pages apart and on pages 33, 44, 56, 86, and 100. The article pictures adhere to the purpose of the article, usually a close up of food or beauty materials, or of a women in a workout position that applies to the techniques listed. 

Distribution:

Woman's Heath magazine is published 10 times a year with a distribution number of about 1.5 million. Our group's magazine would predict to circulate about 100-200,000 magazines. Woman's Health magazine is ranked 4th in Adweek Media's "Hot List", 2nd on Advertising Age's annual "A-List", was named "Magazine of the Year" by Advertising Age, and has a National Magazine Award.