I realize I'm posting this too late and that most of us go blog hunting on Friday night but I can always change my design if someone offers a great suggestion.
Having a hard time picking a publication for the classification assignment. I'm classifying queens.
Using an intro about scandal and recent releases about monarchs (The Other Boleyn Girl, The Tudors, Elizabeth, The Queen), I'm presenting 4 categories of queens. Mostly this focuses on 13th - 15th century. The categories are - discarded queens, queen of hearts, queens trump all, and kings who would be queens. Still need a catchy, card reference for that one.
So I need a publication where a story about scandal, history, and entertainment can cross. Despite quality time spent at B&N last night and even looking online at a magazine database, I'm sorta stuck. Well, I ended up the same place as I did Sunday and that was thinking my two best bets are Vanity Fair or Urbanite. Only Vanity Fair doesn't do 4-page articles; they have one pagers or 10 pagers. Urbanite tends to focus on Baltimore stories except for their one pagers where they review movies, books, etc.
Any ideas???
5 comments:
thats a really tough one. i dont really read the new yorker, but somehow that seems like it would work. or maybe newsweek - youd probably just have to go more historical. i think you'll have to pick what you want to go heaviest on, history, entertainment, or something else, and then just sort of weave the rest of it in. maybe that would work.
If they all have a movie/tv tie in, you could maybe try Premiere...
Or if you wanted to be really obnoxious, you could classify queens as royalty (real queens), deck of cards (playing queens), Queen(s) (the band), queens (of the cross-dressing variety), beauty queens, etc, etc, ect. Your sidebar could be "almost a queen" (famous princesses). Uh...can you tell I almost did this one myself. :-)
I do like kristin's idea of movie tie-ins.
Oh, I forgot to add another category- Disney queens.
I was thinking New Yorker too but it didn't seem serious enough for them. Even their humor is quite intelligent.
I looked for Premiere in two places and couldn't find it.
I think Vanity Fair wins this one. I'll take another look at Entertainment Weekly but I wasn't seeing this piece fit in there but maybe I need to look again.
Content is good for VF, it's just the format I'm not sold on. VF is the first one to come to mind when I was thinking scandal and history.
VF's columnists have shorter spreads so I can probably work it into that.
I was hoping to get my first issue of ACCESS DirecTV but no go. I have a feeling they have a cool design based on two covers I've seen.
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