Magazine Analysis- SNOWBOARDER

THESIS: This magazine has one motive- keep a snowboarding magazine just about snowboarding.

FIVE FACTS (from the magazine):

1. "Sicktionary"- SNOWBOARDERS own little dictionary.

Example, layback- a layback entails sliding frontside on a feature base-down while literally laying back and dragging one's trailing hand. Variations include the layback air and the look-back layback.

2. Random fact, After Venice, Pittsburgh has the most bridges then any other city in the world.

3. A 2 disc dvd calls "right brain, left brain" by Think Thank is in stores now or on www.ThinkThank.com
4. Keegan Valaika won their contest for highest ollie, in the Americas next top pro model contest.

5. The movie Out Cold, was one of the most successful snowboard themed movies that has made it to theaters.

TRIUNE BRAIN: SNOWBOARDER magazine is a very "limbicly" based magazine because of all of the pictures throughout the whole issue. Almost every other page is an awesome picture of a mountain with someone snowboarding on it or just a creative or colorful advertisement. It also comes with a few posters in every issue which is pretty cool.

The Lizard brain is also used because for girls at least, a lot of the snowboarders are really cute so you are attracted to them so there are pictures of them for the advertisements

8 TRENDS: Snowboarder mag recently made it possible to access a lot of the magazine online, making it follow the Analog to Digital trend. Also having video interviews on the website that are in the actual magazine.

7 PRINCIPLES: The pacing in this magazine is very interesting because like i said before, every other page pretty much is a photograph so you read an article and then can look at the pictures.

29 PERSUASIVE TECHNIQUES: Plain folks is used in this magazine with the interviews they have with the amurature riders throughout the magazine. They also do this because at the beginning of every issue they have the list of all of the people who work on the magazine. Humor is also used all throughout this magazine from the stories, to the advertisements. This magazine is very good at keeping everything light hearted and funny. The advertisements are always pretty funny with the pros and their gear and are always doing something crazy in the pictures.