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Magazine Project Research

Magazine 2: Sports Illustrated

The cover utilizes the space quite well on the cover itself quite well. The title, white and bold, interacts with the cover photo of Dwight Howard sitting by going behind his torso but remaining in front of the background. There is also a quote on the cover that has a shadow behind the letters, which helps to make it seem more realistic and as if it is part of the photo, even though it was clearly edited onto the cover. The articles in this magazine consist of different sports articles that occur throughout the entire magazine. There are advertisements throughout the magazine are of no relation to sports, a lot of them are actually surprising. For instance, there is an advertisement for cigarettes which are considerably bad for your health. Yet, there is an article about ranking athletes that are in the best shape. There are some advertisements about hygiene which may be because of the articles that are done about certain athletes may be sponsored by these products. The cover photo seems to be quite casual. It is just a picture of basketball player, Dwight Howard, sitting on steps rather than playing his sport. He is giving a solemn expression which does fit with the quote he gives on the for the cover, "What I've been through, I don't want anyone else to go through." There are also three features mentioned on the cover. The table of contents is baseball themed, and lists the features in order by page number. The page numbers themselves have a font that resembles the font used for numbers put on baseballs jerseys, which corresponds with the theme. The rest of the articles relate to there topics and all have their individual themes. Sports Illustrated has quite a large distribution of 3.2 million magazines. They have recently reduced the amount of issues they make every year.

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