Haley's Blog

I used a Canon eos camera for my photo shoot on the sports setting and A+ settings. I mostly used publisher and InDesign for my magazine and photoshop for some of the photos in my magazine to sharpen them up.

I feel I am way more proficient with my skills I have learned during this magazine process. I had never used a real camera before other than my iPhone one and this project taught me how to take photos and what the different compositions of them mean. My photoshop skills were also improved I learned how to cut out an image on photoshop and layer the background for my cover. I had to schedule different photoshoots also to make it so everyone could make the photoshoot for my magazine.

My distribution plan is to set up stands to make a website that features photos of my magazine. This will attract people and they will want to order the magazine due to it's eye catching action pictures and popping colors. The distribution research i did helped prosuce this plan because it taught me differnt ways magazines can be distributed. traditionally magazines can be distributed at places like a grocery store. Other places may distribute magazines at college bookstores to attract a younger crowd like what i am tring to do with my magazine. 

One convention I used in this project was the use of bright  and bold background on the front of my cover page. This attracts more consumers when looking for magazines in places like grocery stores. Another convention that I strategically used was the front cover shows a cutout of a soccer player that covers the whole page and catches consumers attention. This affects the social group of people that like to read sports magazines like sports illustrated because it uses bright colors like on magazines they have seen and read before. Another convention i used was a bold and unique font titale that i outlined in orange. This helps so that the magazine catches teens eyes in stores with the bright colors. The social groups represented in this magazine is a soccer team with 2 coaches. The location i chose helps show it is soccer team because they are at a soccer field with a goal in the background. 

 Some revisions I made to my magazine include changing the fonts of my title and text, adding page numbers, adjusting columns, fixing columns, and adding some new picture to the 2 page article.

My distribution plan is to set up stands to make a website that features photos of my magazine. This will attract people and they will want to order the magazine due to it's eye catching action pictures and popping colors.