Wednesday, 16 September 2009

Industry: Magazines

Webpage: www.whitelines.com

Whitelines magazine's housestyle consist of full page pictures with the text in contrast with the image, for example, it may be a black and white picture so the sky would be black, then Whitelines uses a white font and puts it on the black sky which really makes a difference in making it clearer and alot easier to read.

The advertisements usually have a picture of the product eg. showing the board up-right with both the top and bottom of the board showing and in the background there might be a background picture with a profesional rider doing a complicated trick to maybe enhance the boards reputation. In the way that if people see well known riders useing the product they want to buy it because they feel it makes them look better. Then in the bottom of the page is a white boz with the products name, price and specs.

This is a pretty standard way of advertising used for all kinds of products because when brands use celebrities to endorse items the reader or buyer thinks that if the most popular people in the world are using this product then i want to aswell.

Whitelines target their magazine at people intrested in snowboarding ranging between the ages 15-40 as they have posts from the readers around those ages telling the magazine about a past experience or recomending resorts or products. The main audience are probabably quite relaxed about most things and alot of the people who read Whitelines actually work in snowboard shops in the UK as its a UK based magazine, however some of the older readers work as docters ect...

The magazine influences readers to get out there and try all these different tricks, boards, bindings and even hats and near the back of the magazine is purely business advertisment page where different sites and shops put their web address , name, products and offers as this draws the reader in.

Thursday, 10 September 2009

Whitelines introduction

Whitelines snowboarding magazine is used to promote worldwide events such as the Burton European Open and the FIS Big Air World Champion 2009, then the exclusive producer, Ed Bloomfield comintates and debates the competition. The magazine is also used by many different shops and websites to advertise their stock and Whitelines also produces ratings and reviews on the new boards and systems like the new Reverse Camber and the new Rocker system.

Audience:
The audience for Whitelines magazine is snowboarders worldwide who are intrested in going to all the hottest events like the Burton European Open to see their idols like Shaun White and Kevin Peirce. The age range is about 15-30 as the language used can be quite strong.

Demographics:
The exclusive producer of Whitelines is a rider who could'nt make it as a professional rider but he stil wanted a career in the industry so he used his intrest in snowboarding and journalism to follow his sport and also trial some of the best resorts in the world.

Genre:
Whitelines is a extreme sports magazine used to promote big snowboarding events and also snowboarding equipment and clothing.