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                Background on Developing Content Ideas           Now that I have finalized my analysis on "Mother Earth Living" and gained a strong sense of how they designed it to their specific style, I will reflect on them and also contemplate some content ideas for my articles to come up with a sort of structure of my own. Furthermore, I want this specific issue to have an overall theme or idea to base the articles on- it may be some sort of special edition focusing on one specific aspect of how natural substances from our earth serve us good.            When contemplating ideas for the magazine I will be developing, I instantly knew that I wanted to cover the role of herbs and nature in the field of medicine. This was also influenced by my mother, who works in a dental office. We were discussing the different fields within dentistry. She told me there was a branch of dentistry where herbs are used to substitute other dental treatments and the two elements of nature an

                Background on "Mother Earth Living"       This magazine initially had been named "Natural Home and Garden", which had began issuing in 1999; although, it focused primarily on aspects of building homes with other types of material such as straw and things as such. The magazine contained interesting information of these elements but there was an issue; there wasn't a sufficient mass of audience that would be reading these articles to support this type of magazine. They then knew they would have to alter some of their focuses while still maintaining their initial goal to make the magazine "green".        In the year 2012, it was rebranded to be named its current title "Mother Earth Living" by merging with the brand "The Herb Companion" with "Natural Home and Garden" in order to "provide  advertisers with a larger marketing platform and reach a wider audience than we could with the smaller publications

        Feature Spreads Analysis of "Mother Earth Living"               After analyses of both, the covers and tables of contents, of "Mother Earth Living" I will also analyze a few of its feature spreads. This will also assist me when kaing my own spread for my magazine, "Nature's Boon".              One repeated aspect of the spreads that I have significantly noticed is the profuse amount of texts on them. Many magazines have a central image in spreads and surround it with text but this particular magazine focuses more on the content than the actual focus of calling attention to their images. But like any other spread they highlight certain topics of the issue and its theme with a wide variety.                   For example, the "Stay Healthy While Traveling" issue suggest they address the concept of health when visiting other places out of one's everyday environment. To compliment this focus, Mother Earth Living included a two p

Reflection of House Style Presentations:                      After creating a presentation on the house style of Money magazine and watching presentations analyzing nine other magazine's house styles, I can reflect on these to surface a magazine with a style of my own. I could take into account the main focus and theme of my magazine. Some concentrated on fashion and celebrities; on the other hand, others had a focus on aspects of nature, like National Geographic , or on technology, similar to the style of Wired . Although I am not yet clear about what I want the center focus of my magazine to be, I know it will be surrounded with aspects of serene nature.       To compliment this theme of nature, I would have to take the color scheme into consideration. Some magazines stuck to the relatively same color schemes and patterns, while other magazines would drastically change their choices of colors with each issue. Having a color scheme that was closely related to all the issues

Mother Earth Living Table of Contents Codes and Conventions                                                                                                                                      Vivian Fundora                    As I continue to analyze the magazine, "Mother Earth Living", I also took a look at its table of contents. Since I will be creating one for my own magazine this will come in handy to facilitate how i come up with my ideas and what I would like to do differently.            After looking at a few issues, this magazine tends to contain about a total of 60 to 75 pages; the table of contents tends to take up two pages. It summarizes the entire magazine into two simply laid out pages for the audience to get a glimpse of what is inside. In my the magazine of my own i think that i would like to stick to having 60 to 75 pages in my whole magazine because its not an overwhelming amount of articles and information but it still has a significant amount to