Earlier, I have decided in my blog that I was going to have a soccer player featured on the cover and in the cover article. I decided with going with a player who plays in the Weston soccer league. I plan on going to his game on Saturday night. With plans of interviewing him before and after the game, keeping record of his stats in the game. As well as analyzing the game for a separate part of my magazine.
Thursday, February 27, 2025
Thursday, February 20, 2025
Planning Outline
I plan on organizing my magazine with this.
- Cover Page
- Table of Contents
- Sports News
- Feature Story
- Game Analysis
- Player Interviews
- Up Coming Games
- Back Cover
Tuesday, February 18, 2025
Planning
As I continue to plan my magazine, I'm going to focus it on more soccer themed. Soccer constantly has exciting news about local leagues, tournaments, and players, I plan on adding all of this into my magazine. Providing coverage of the latest news. In addition I plan to add information about any local soccer players different that the player on the feature article.
Sunday, February 16, 2025
Match Report Planning
Match reports are common in sports magazine. While at the match for my cover story, I would watch the soccer or lacrosse match and write a match report on it. Writing down key moments, team performances. Focusing on their teams formations and tactics whether if they play defensively or aggressively, the flow of the game, who dominated and major shifts in the game. Taking notes throughout the match, to not miss details. Including photos to go along side with the match report. Capturing moments like a goal celebrations, dramatic save, or intense moments to emotion and bring my report to life.
Wednesday, February 12, 2025
Sports Magazine Planning
After finally picking a genre for my magazine, I have looked trough my research and I saw that having cover story is what most sports magazine have, I plan on interviewing a player from school West Broward High School from the soccer team or the lacrosse team. Asking them questions about dedication, challenges and goals. For the cover photo I would plan to shoot photos of them posing or during a game. To keep with the conventions of a sports magazine I would make a color scheme of the uniform and follow that scheme for the masthead and the cover lines.
Sunday, February 9, 2025
Magazine Prospal
My name is Karel Meza, and I have decided that I am going to work on a sports magazine. Sports have always something that has interested me, reading these sports magazines online and seeing the latest news about my favorite sports. Interviews with my favorite players. I decided that I wanted to try to create this excitement that you could get from reading about dramatic news.
Sports magazine will carter to people usually who are loyal and dedicated to that sports, often those who also participate in that sport. Most consumers for sports media are between the age 25 and 44 and almost all of those being male. In the US, the highest percentage of sports magazines are Hispanic.
I will represent that sports magazine often do not represent women's sport on the same level that men's sports is represented on, and the stereotypes in women's sport where many think that female athletes achievement's are less significant then men's. I would also represent that barrier in sports in America where there is a financial barrier that prevent youth that come from low income families from accessing the same sports opportunities as other athletes. I will be planning on using a InDesign to create my magazine and use a camera to take phots to add into my magazine. I will practice creating covers and fake magazines on InDesign and watching tutorials online to help me understand InDesign to make my magazine process go smoothly.
Saturday, February 8, 2025
Science Magazine Research
Science magazines are publications that show news, scientific onions, and reports of science. This type of magazines are written for people who enjoy learning about science but are not experts on science. While some magazines are aimed for experts in the science field, they are less popular.
Science magazines often use blues, greens, and purple on the cover to give the magazine are more scientific and futuristic feel when looking at it. Blue is strongly associated with the sky and space while green is associated with nature which are two common topics explored in these science magazines. While the science magazines that are aimed at experts usually would use a black or white color scheme with some color on the cover. Staying with a black or white color to give a more professional look for the cover. Focusing on an audience of actual professionals and not an audience of readers that they have to reel in with new and exciting graphics with blasts of colors.
General science magazines will have a focus in on short articles with high quality photographs and illustrations to, while nature and environmental will have also have the same characteristics as general science magazines they will tend to be more thought provoking. They focus on issues like climate change and issues similar, to this, encouraging readers to think about the these problems and potential actions they can do past reading the magazine. Research and academic magazines will have a more professional design with minimalistic layout with graphs, citations, and peer reviewed studies.
I have thoroughly enjoyed researching science magazine, science has always a subject that I have always enjoyed in school and out of school, often reading science magazines when I was younger. However I still think that sports magazine will be better option for me, plus I would enjoy it more creating a sports magazine.
Tuesday, February 4, 2025
Sport Genre Magazine
Sport magazines use a variety of different layouts, some prefer a layouts with lots of overlapping, action shots, while other publication will use a more minimalist layout with well spaced layout with very few distractions. Layout with lots of overlapping give the feeling that this magazine is filled with action, Usually used for exciting news, big events, and fast sports. Used to capture the thrill of whatever is happening in that sport. Minimalist layouts feel more calm and sophisticated. Usually used for interviews and deep analysis of a player or a team.
Sunday, February 2, 2025
Conventions of a Magazine
Continuing my research, I'm researching the conventions of a magazine to learn what I need in order to be successful in creating my own magazine. The front cover is the first thing a person sees before reading it, including an image that catches them to read your magazine is important. Including a title and image that fits your genre. Fashion magazines usually would show celebrities all dressed up. A bold title is important as well as cover lines to hint what is in the magazine.
Table of contents are important as it provides the reader with an organized layout of all the magazine has to feature. Sometimes would have a picture or text to describe the content of that page.Critical Reflection
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