For my Final Portfolio Project, I have decided to create a magazine spread in which I am going to feature a unique cover page, table of contents, double page spread and hopefully more which is undecided. I have a passion for fitness and healthy living so I decided that would be a perfect genre for my magazine. I am decently familiar with magazine layouts and the type of magazine writing they encounter considering my mother is a writer and has written for many magazines.

     Today I began researching my genre- healthy life style. I want to incorporate healthy eating, recipes, yoga, gym work outs, fitness attire, ways to loose weigh, etc in my issue. During research I found that many fitness magazines have confident women on the cover in either gym or sports clothing. Most Fitness magazine layout patterns appear to be very similar, with the model centered in an either full body or mostly full body shot with luring cover lines. Magazines like Oxygen, Women's Fitness, and Healthy Living are ones that I would like to take after and of course throw my own twist to it. My target audience would be women ages 15-35 mostly middle to upper class. My magazine would also be sold at places like supermarkets, book stores, airports, displayed in doctors offices etc. considering these places are typically where you would find women of these ages.