AICE Media studies blog

                             Photo Editing           When is came to designing my cover, I glanced back at my previous blogs to combine all elements that I wanted to include in my magazine. This included the content, images and structure.     The structure is quite similar to the magazine I analyzed in class (Mother Earth Living) which provided an clean and simple structure. I still had to play with font, but it was just a rough planning of my ideas.         Since the photo shoot were taking at such distinct locations, the lighting and tones of the pictures don't really blend together to include them in my magazine just yet. Because of this, i'm going to be adjusting this with the Photoshop program so all pictures come together and compliment each other before starting to place them into the actual magazine.      For the cover I decided th...

                                Choosing Magazine Font         When it came to choosing my fonts, I had to do some research. On the website www.indesignskills.com I found some useful tips.      Since my main article is "Dental Herbalism", I knew it would have to be a sophisticated font to fit this medical theme. They advised to utilize the "Bodoni" font; however, I was able to find the "Bodoni MT" font and it was a perfect fit.           For my magazine's title, Nature's Boon I wanted a bold text because I wanted the name to stand out with the main image in the background. Since the main image is taking over the whole cover, it is essential for the title to be in a bolder text. This will also be useful for the audience to identify the magazine instantly from the eye-catching letters. On the website https://justcreative.com I found the font ...

                                   Photo Shoot Reflection               In order to gather all pictures for my magazine, I held several photo shoots because the locations were quite different. Since I wanted to have natural, bright lighting in my shots, I have to wait on the correct day and sometimes the clouds would block the sunlight, therefore, spreading the shoots out worked well for me.               Living in Miami, opportunities to take pictures were everywhere so I took my friend with his IPhoneX to take pictures at a great moment. We to the pedestrian road, "Lincoln Road", where they were holding a gathering of people who set up tents to sell natural smoothies, vegetables and other natural and organic products. Here, we found a local company that sold herbs and spices. I put the camera in portrait mode to have ...

Photoshoot Planning         Now I will be planning the photoshoot for my magazine. I have never really done this process for any other class, or any other occasion for that matter. I searched up "How to prepare for a photoshoot", and I came across a website that i found fit to guide me through the process.                           https://photographylife.com/how-to-plan-a-photo-shoot          Ever since my teacher began explaining to the class that we would have to make our own magazines at the beginning of the year, I would begin to jot down ideas in the "Notes" application on my phone. I knew the theme of my magazine would be centered on a healthy and natural lifestyle, so I went on to       For my equipment I have borrowed my friends iPhone X because of its superior camera quality. When contemplating the location of my photoshoot, I realized it would ...

                Background on Developing Content Ideas           Now that I have finalized my analysis on "Mother Earth Living" and gained a strong sense of how they designed it to their specific style, I will reflect on them and also contemplate some content ideas for my articles to come up with a sort of structure of my own. Furthermore, I want this specific issue to have an overall theme or idea to base the articles on- it may be some sort of special edition focusing on one specific aspect of how natural substances from our earth serve us good.            When contemplating ideas for the magazine I will be developing, I instantly knew that I wanted to cover the role of herbs and nature in the field of medicine. This was also influenced by my mother, who works in a dental office. We were discussing the different fields within dentistry. She told me there was a branch of dentistry where he...

                Background on "Mother Earth Living"       This magazine initially had been named "Natural Home and Garden", which had began issuing in 1999; although, it focused primarily on aspects of building homes with other types of material such as straw and things as such. The magazine contained interesting information of these elements but there was an issue; there wasn't a sufficient mass of audience that would be reading these articles to support this type of magazine. They then knew they would have to alter some of their focuses while still maintaining their initial goal to make the magazine "green".        In the year 2012, it was rebranded to be named its current title "Mother Earth Living" by merging with the brand "The Herb Companion" with "Natural Home and Garden" in order to "provide  advertisers with a larger marketing platform and reach a wider audience than we could with the smaller pu...

        Feature Spreads Analysis of "Mother Earth Living"               After analyses of both, the covers and tables of contents, of "Mother Earth Living" I will also analyze a few of its feature spreads. This will also assist me when kaing my own spread for my magazine, "Nature's Boon".              One repeated aspect of the spreads that I have significantly noticed is the profuse amount of texts on them. Many magazines have a central image in spreads and surround it with text but this particular magazine focuses more on the content than the actual focus of calling attention to their images. But like any other spread they highlight certain topics of the issue and its theme with a wide variety.                   For example, the "Stay Healthy While Traveling" issue suggest they address the concept of health when visiting other places out of one'...