(19) Ah ship here we go again...Magazine History

Hey what's good guys I'm back and I just wanted to throw another banger your way. Ight bruh so here we go, also I'm bouta go hard on these mag blogs so get ready gang. Nah just kidding guys you know I'd never talk that way haha. Anyways lets talk about the history of magazines so you can get a rudimentary understanding of them.

But before we begin I wanted to share with you the resource from which I derived my knowledge,

https://www.magazines.com/history-of-magazines

I share this information with you because today I will simply give you a synopsis of what I have understood from this source, but if you wish you may look into it more for your own learning and self-development. Moving on, let us begin...

Simply put magazines have been around since the 1600's, but didn't start becoming very popular until about the late 1800's.

Since then magazines have developed into a wide range of categories, covering just about everything from sports, science, women's fashion, etc. Magazines served as a way to inspire, educate, and entertain audiences across the globe

Magazines in the 1900's even started developing into weekly publications and niche categories to target specific demographics, such as National Geographic Magazine which was dedicated to science, geology, and world event. The 1923 initially founded magazine Time was the first weekly publication magazine. The 1954 initially founded Sports Illustrated magazine had a targeted demographic of wealthy Americans as it focused on activities mainly accessible to them such as boating and playing polo.

Well guys that's it, hoped you enjoyed the history lesson, very simplified, but really that's all you need to know. Pretty cool stuff guys.

Thanks for Reading!!

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(21) Is it really a good morning?... House Styles PART 2!!!

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I knew you'd want some more 😉 and I've got you covered!! Today I wanted to demonstrate to you some more camera angles and shots!! The first camera angle is the establishing shot This shot is used to establish the location and environment of a scene and can also set the mood while giving the audience visual clues of the day, time, and general situation. For example in the establishing shot you can tell it's within a school. Another angle similar to the establishing shot is the master shot This shot is meant to focus not as much on the location, but more on all the subjects in the scene, smaller shots can be interwoven into the master shot. Moving on, I have the close-up up shot This shot is taken very close to the subject and has the subject fill most of the frame, the purpose is to emphasize the subject or a small feature of theirs. For example in the photo it appears like he's thinking and you can deduce this by his facial expressions. Any closer and this would

(20) Hey, what if we like stopped being creative?...hmm good idea, House Styles

Hey there friends...what? Your not my friend? That can be solved *gives you half eaten donut*, yeah we chill now. ANYWAYS, to all my dear readers, AHEM, yeah I mean you!! I wanted to discuss with you what is house styles with regards to magazines. I care for you all and would hate to waste your time so I'm going to make this short and sweet and divide this topic into two separate blogs, I will use one blog for to help you understand the subject of house styles in magazines and another blog to demonstrate this in terms of actual magazines so you can see house styles in how it is applied in terms of an industry setting i.e. official magazines. But before I begin let me give you a short list of useful resources to understand the concept of house styles before I simplify it to oblivion for you; https://www.thoughtco.com/house-style-editing-1690842 https://www.theeword.co.uk/blog/creating-a-house-style-for-your-content-why-how/ https://www.encyclopedia.com/humanities/encyclopedias-alm

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