Tanya V

DRAGONFLY When we did our previous  magazine cover for a practice run we had focused on teen girls in high school dealing with new things and giving advice on such topics. Our magazine was called Dragonfly, and at the time we created it to portray change, transformation, and self-realization. The analogy of opening your wings to fly after being in the water for a long time as this resembles a student in college beginning their new life and opening up to new adventures that await them. The new college students are now going somewhere else and we thought for a while that Dragonfly might be a little too girly for the college students. Then we thought about it longer, and now we considered the facts and came up with other names that could also relate to what we are going for. Then we thought about Dragonfly a bit more, it still relates to college girls in general, and how it still goes along with our magazine concepts. After a long thought process, we decided to go with seasons as...

As I've mentioned  before, we had to think about our magazine and what we'll do for the first few days of the project. We were still thinking of how we were going to make the four editions and have them still relate to one another. We had a few ideas to do it on things relating to college and have it in themes for each individual editios. We then thought deeper into what college is and how it works, and how we can make a magazine to work around the college schedule. So students are now beginning college and at the end of the semester, they may have finished a class or just ended half the term. Everyone around certain times of the year takes a test, so we thought that could be one of the many things we can talk about, to give advise on test taking tips. After this main thought, it occurred to us that we can do our edition on something according to the seasons in college. Now like the picture for example, we all have our magazines focusing on the different seasons and what...

For our magazine,  we wanted our genre to be geared towards the media, and have a non-fiction approach aswell. We have created our magazine to serve a variety of purposes and that's why this is our genre. The uses of the media genre are to make sure we get these concepts, to educate, entertain, and persuade the consumers. Our consumers are young college students starting or ending college, but that shouldn't stop all other types of readers from buying our magazine. We are also non-fictional because we want our information to be factual, giving our reader the most correct information and having biased opinions when needed, to make an article sound more personal and make a connection with the reader. To go along with the reasons for our genre and to go into detail, we want to educate our readers in any way we can, even if it is to tell them the best coffee places for late college nights. Our true purpose is to educate, because we want to give advise and give our knowledge ...

Masthead  We'll want in our magazine as well a large text to make it instantly recognizable, and it will tie in with my audience and doing ours in purple and cursive, will help to achieve this goal. House Style Ours will have to something recognizable, like this one is big and all caps, so its notable and eye-catching. Slogan It will also attract readers if it is catchy and interesting, so it will make you want to read it. Ours go along with our audience but since we are changing our audience a bit, we might have to think of a new one. Puffs They are the mini-articles that go along with the main article and it will provide information on what's inside the magazine and lets the reader know if they want to read it or not. Featured Article This will be the main focus like in this example its font size is zoomed in and grabs your attention more. Sweet Spot  An advert that the consumers want and something that they will use, and as they read the cover they spot t...

These magazines are bright and colorful, and as you can tell they are spring editions from very well known magazines.  As I was looking for examples, for spring magazines I came across these and these ended up being great examples for how I can do my cover photo. They use a big house style and it really puts their name out there, with ours it can't be too big because it has a couple of simple additions that I'll have them added in, making the masthead probably smaller. I also am planning to do a slogan, and it looks like they don't have one so I could easily still make it similar but make it my own. They have a lot of big words and buzzwords to attract reads and get a sort of responds from their consumers. One is a teenage magazine and the other is more mature so it's like the pinkies go along with the teenager looks of the first one and another thing I notice has words that are straight forward and simple. Then the teenage one had a theme color they were going for...

As we are planning to take photos, we have to think about the light features too. Since we have the idea to go and take the photo at Micheals, it would be fluorescent lights. It wouldn't make the best photo but with certain edits, I could make it look really professional. The good thing about this is, if the sun is coming up, then the model doesn't have to hurt her eyes to look mysterious. There is a good and bad reason to choose the lighting in the store. Now I'll go and take the pictures, and come back to this blog post. After Taking Photo, with different Lighting We hadn't had the time to go and take pictures as we described, but we planned to go out and the light on campus was great as it was cloudy on campus. This has it's own advantage as this prevents any shadows in the photos. It is also the best time around 1-2 hours after the sun rises to take photos. As we took the photo it was at that time but we didn't plan for the weather. I made the compo...