Lifestyle magazine mood board

Lifestyle magazines are magazines which tend to be aimed at either men or women and include articles covering a variety of topics such as health, fashion and entertainment.


To begin my research on lifestyle magazines, I looked through covers for some popular lifestyle magazines. I primarily focussed on men's magazines as the audience for my show is primarily male, and looked for magazines which focussed on entertainment (particularly film and TV).

One similarity which I noticed was that all the magazines focussed on actors, rather than writers or directors. The shots of the actors tend to be fairly bland and not very stylised; they often have white (or other plain) backgrounds, studio lighting, and often have actors looking directly at the camera in a medium close up or medium shot. The actors are also normally wearing fairly formal clothing (i.e. suits for men).


The cover lines which I found tend to focus on the stars which are featured and normally include their name (or at least part of it). They sometimes talk about the clothing and style of the celebrity and sometimes touch on their true personality or their rise to fame. Similarly, the articles themselves tend to focus on a person - either an actor or a director - rather than a particular film. They tend to give an overview of their whole career before focussing upon a recent/upcoming project of theirs.