AICE Media Studies magazine project

The hardest part for making the table of contents was coming up with the stories that will be featured in my magazine. I got the theme of winter, so I had to make sure I had the stories agree with the genre and theme of my magazine. It was very difficult to come up with enough winter stories to include in my table of contents. After I sat down and thought about it, there was many stories that could be included in my magazine. I thought about what college students have to do before winter break, study for their midterms and finals. I realized that this was a very important part for college students, so I made this my main article. Then I had to come up with the other stories, so decided to make a list on a word document first to organize all my ideas. The first time I organized them I could only come up with six stories to feature in my magazine, but I ended up coming up with twelve all together.  My table of contents features the title in the upper left hand corner, and a pic...

Audience:  The group of people that will be most interested in my magazine are women entering college, or women who are already in college. I tried to make my audience clear based on the stories that I included and the products that were featured such as makeup. Masthead:  The name of the magazine is Dragonfly, because I wanted to try and represent women through a feminine title. The logo of the is a dragonfly, because it is a symbol of what the title is. Mode of Address:  The magazine talks to the reader by, having the model look directly into the camera. When they do this, it draws in the attention of the reader, making them want to read it. Also the fire in the background looks cool, giving the reader another reason to want to read the magazine. House Style: The distinctive style to my magazine is the word dragonfly that is in skinny letters, italisiced, and blue. It does not look like any of the other competitors title. It stands out with its own sense ...

During the process of making my magazine, ran into a few challenges that could have set me back a lot. But, I always found a way to work around them. The first challenge that I faced was, there was not enough laptops for everyone in the class. Because of this I started to have to bring my laptop to school everyday so I could work on my project during class. This actually ended up being a good thing though, because now I enjoy bringing my laptop to school. It is much easier because if I have a free period I can work on my laptop instead of sitting and doing nothing. Another challenge that I faced was not having enough time to finish the project and all of the elements that were required. I had no prior knowledge in magazine making, so I feel like it was harder for me to construct my magazine quickly. If I would of had more of a background to the parts of a magazine, then I probably could have finished it a lot quicker. Also, I had no prior knowledge on blogging, or even how to write...

I had trouble picking out what I wanted to put in the sweet spot, and where it would go. I wanted to put the sweet spot towards the top of my magazine, but because of how the fireplace and stockings were set up, it did not look right. I did not want anything to cover the fireplace or stockings. So I then thought that I would move it down to the middle of the cover, but that still did not look correct because then there was not enough room to put the stories and their descriptions. So, I finally moved the sweet spot down to the bottom right corner of the magazine, to ensure that it would not be covering anything important. Now, I had to decide what I was going to put there. In one of my stories, I was featuring Ariana Grande and her makeup tips. So, I thought it would be perfect if I used one of her perfumes in the sweet spot. So I took a screen shot of her Thank You Next Perfume online, and went to my toolbox so I could crop it down. I then quickly realized that cropping it to the pe...

The slogan of my magazine is, spread your wings. This was also the slogan of the previous magazine I made, which I explained in the previous blog. In my opinion, the meaning of this is to be confident in yourself. When you are spreading your wings, you are letting your true self out, and being yourself. Also, to spread your wings can mean to mature and grow into the person that you are. It can also mean to try new things, which will make you a stronger person. When I think of spreading your things, a butterfly coming out of a cocoon comes to my mind because when they hatch they are spreading their wings. This slogan is perfect for my magazine because when a young woman enters college, she has to become a woman in the real world. I also feel like this slogan is perfect for my magazine because spreading your wings can also mean grow up. As a young woman grows up, she has to spread her wings to the world and show everyone who she truly is.

The template that I used already had a set color, size, and font style. I did not like the color because it was yellow, and my theme was winter. I felt that the color that looked best was a shade of blue. I decided that I would unbold the title too, as bolding it made it too big. I then shrunk down the thickness of the sizes of the letters to make them skinnier. This is the comparison between the two. The one on the left is the one that I designed, versus the one on the right which Canva had designed. I feel like mine better suits my magazine, the letters are not as bold.  The next font that I adjusted was the main word contents on the table of contents. The one on the top is the the one that I designed, and the one on the bottom is the one Canva designed. The only thing that I edited was the color of the word contents. I felt that grey did not fit right with the red noel. The white matches better with the red than the grey did.

The main cover photo is one of the most important photos on the magazine. You want to have a good mode of address, so the reader is pulled into your magazine. If the front cover has no model on the front and is just a blank page, it will not interest the readers. For my magazine, I thought it would be cool to put model in front of an original and not seen very much spot. I started by putting the picture on the magazine, but then I realized that it was too dark. I then had to take the picture off of the magazine and go into my photo app and brighten the photo. Once I brightened it, I realized that her face was a lot more visible and everything looked better. This is the photo that I used for my main cover. Around the logs on the fire and on her face was where it was too dark. I felt that this spot was unique for winter, because we do not see fireplaces and stockings year round. The blanket adds the effect of winter time, and how it was chilly outside. With the template that I...