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Magazine Conventions Research

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Audience:   the audience for my magazine "Flip Dinero", is entrepreneurs, business leaders, stock investors, and overall anyone in the business world or business aspirations. Mise-en-scene: The Mise-en-scene is a modern, futuristic yet with a time stamp magazine, that is up to date. Fonts with mainly sans serif, bright colors, and material design. Genre:    Flip Dinero will embody the genre of Entrepreneur Magazine, Forbes, and Bloomberg Businessweek all in one. Illustrating most successful people in an area while covering financial and business news. Masthead: The masthead will be behind the main image and will be able to be moved. Due to the magazine being a modern magazine it will have larger flexibility with its design than other business magazines such as Forbes or entrepreneur. Main Image:   the image will be in the center of the front page, the picture is usually of a person who will probably have an exclusive interview and a couple of pictur

Magazine Spread Research

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Entrepreneur Magazine uses a clean and structured organization of its spread. Usually titled with a serif font and uses a serif drop cap at the start of the article. It only uses one image to represent the text and a quotation is always in the center of the text. Organization of the article is divided by a "T" and flows from right to left. Forbes Magazine divides a spread in half, usually depicting the main person or image in the first whole page and the story in the second one. For their articles, they use sans serif and their titles and subheadline while a serif font for the main text. Also highlighting the important items of information. Also, they promote similar articles at the top of the second page to promote the genre. Bloomberg Businessweek uses a color scheme to represent the article genre. Also, use san serif as the headlines and subheadlines while using serif as the main text. The main image is placed between both spreads and the text surrounds it. Co

Magazine Table of Contents Research

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Entrepreneur magazine table of contents is always around 100 pages. The main article is always featured as a background or side image in the table of contents. Fonts are usually bold on the most important stories and since the magazine is about forward-thinking it uses sans serif fonts. Forbes magazine also illustrates the images of the main articles. Along the side of the main images, it illustrates the smaller articles with a serif font and a different color for the pages of the articles. Usually, around 150 pages Forbes bolds its most controversial topics and gives around 1 to 2 sentences of description per article. Bloomberg Business also uses a main image or illustration to show its main article or at times the image itself will illustrate various colleges of the articles. Also like Forbes and Entrepreneur, Bloomberg places its table of contents along the main image and gives instead one sentence for each article description. However, for the larger articles and most im