AS Media Studies Foundation Portfolio

Production Calendar In order to stay organized and on track with the completion of  my magazine. I have decided to make a production calendar. I will label and follow this calendar accordingly. This calendar will signify what I should be doing each week and will guide me to completion.

      In this blog, I will be practicing and assessing my ability to write my own practice lead as I will have to create one for my own magazine. Given the story below:    " The police in this municipality received a call at 3:45 p.m. yesterday afternoon. A woman shouted at the sergeant who answered the telephone. She said: "My son's been beaten. His teacher whipped him this afternoon, and he's all red where she paddled him. Can teachers do that? That's assault and battery, and I want her arrested." Two police officers were sent to the home. They questioned the boy, who is 9 years old. At his mother's insistence, the police officers also inspected the boy's reported injuries. They reported: "We couldn't tell that the boy had been paddled. His fanny didn't look red to us, but we did notice that his pants legs were wet and muddy. As we talked, it became obvious that he boy was lying. He finally admitted that he had stopped to play on the wa...

 This class we took time to learn about feature stories, their components, and importance.      Feature writings tells the reader a story. They include a lead, middle, and end. It also allows readers to see the story through the use of detailed description, vivid writing. Including feature stories in magazines gives readers a break from the normal content and provides them something more engaging.      Most contents found in magazines only provides a brief description of the topic. On the contrary, f eatures are more in-depth than traditional news  stories  and go beyond providing the most important facts. The  purpose  of these  stories  is to provide a detailed description of a place, person, idea, or organization. Over the next few days, I will continue my research on the role of feature stories and practice creating my own.

       After receiving feedback and evaluating my initial preliminary cover page, I decided to go back and reattempt my cover page with the new corrections. I replaced the first photo with a new shot I captured of Model #2 and I love it. I have placed the new image below: 

 After creating my first practice cover page and learning that I must provide my own photos for my content, I gathered the models I would like to use for my shots. Meet my 2 lovely models below! Model 1: Female 17 African American Model 2: Male 18 African American

      In my previous blog post, I showed you guys my first attempt of creating my magazine cover. Since then, I have learned what works and what needs to be tweaked. For instance, I am now aware that I must provide my own pictures so I am now planning on gathering models and taking the necessary shots. In addition, I will also make sure I continue to pay attention to detail such as, font, font size, color, placement, etc. The original font colors I chose did not stand out against my cover photo. Next time, I will make sure that the new photo I choose works with the font color and size. In the meantime, I will utilize the canvas program in order to work on more practice covers until I create one to my liking.

Hey guys! Below is my first attempt at creating my magazine cover.