AICE Media Studies AS- Love, K

 This is my first draft of my cooking magazine grandma's kitchen! I took all of the photos myself and I am super proud how these all turned out. I feel like it has a very professional look and feeling overall and will only need little improvements.

 After I got the layout how I wanted and the perfect pictures for my magazine I began working on the formatting of the magazine and making sure everything fit. I had to make sure that the colors in my pictures would match well with the color scheme that I chose for my magazine. I Inserted the text for my different articles as well as the pictures and moved them around for the most eye-pleasing look. This only took about a half hour to an hour to get what I think is the perfect layout. The text is clearly visible and so are the pictures. The pictures match the color scheme of the magazine which are different shades of blue and white. My pictures clearly correlate with the article that is next to it.  

 Me and my partner found a format that we both enjoyed but the pictures I had didn't match the format. That day I retook my pictures for my feature article and cover page. I had googled pictures of pancakes and found one that I liked and that went well with our new template, so I tried to replicate it the best I could. I am pretty happy with how my new pictures turned out. They look a lot more professional than the previous images I took. I edited them in Adobe Lightroom to give them a more professional look instead of them looking like I just took them on my kitchen counter. For lighting I used these hanging lights I have in my kitchen which created a lot more cooler colors than my normal kitchen lights created.

          Over Christmas break I took some of the pictures for magazine. When I had everything set up, I realized that I wasn’t going to able to do what I had planned out.  Originally,  I was going to take a picture  of pancakes, bacon, and eggs on three separate plates for my cover page. Once I had it all together, it turned out that was going to be a lot more difficult to capture than I had previously thought. So  instead,  I put them all on one plate and tried to see how that would look.  After editing my cover image with Adobe Lightroom, I realized that the  original  font color scheme I was planning on did not match well with the colors of my  image,  so I had to change the colors aroun d.  I am not set on which colors to use but I think I am going to use red for the masthead and then black for the rest of the text in the feature article and content page.  

       This week we were tasked with creating a storyboard for our magazine or film. I decided to try and take advantage of this opportunity by creating my storyboard for my magazine in Adobe  InDesign. At first, I stumbled upon many challenges, how to change font color, how to resize images, how to change  the borders for the magazine. But after a little of messing around and using Google, I  figured  out how to overcome these challenges.  As of right now, I have a pretty good idea of my title font, color, cover images, and what my feature article is going to be about.  Using InDesign to create my storyboard helped me know what to expect when I create my final m agazine.  When messing around with images I realized that this will not be as easy as I thought it was going to be. Making the masthead the correct font, correct size, and correct color to ma tch the main image turned out to be a lot more challenging  than  I firs...

     The masthead for my magazine will be called Grandma's Kitchen. The main image is not set in place yet but i am thinking of putting a picture of my father holding his pancakes. The selling line of the magazine will be "Old fashioned & culturally renowned". The font will be  poppins and adorn condensed sans regular. The feature article title will be " Dad’s  Delicious  Homemade  Fluffy Pancakes", the content within the article will be the pancake recipe and the backstory behind them. For the content page i will have  different articles of different recipes that readers have submitted .  

  CATEGORY   DETAILS   Film OR Magazine   Magazine   Genre   Cooking   Target Audience  (Be specific)   Middle age and older  people interested in cooking   What is your concept?  (Be thorough & specific. Review the links on Blackboard)   My father works at First Watch which is a well-known breakfast restaurant. I plan on interviewing my father about the pancakes that they make for my feature story. This will be the  August  issue and  will  highlight  Summertime  favorite  food s  and  specials that are served at First Watch .   The pictures included will be of m y father  to focus on the interview portion and pictures of  fluffy  thick  pancakes .   In terms of the magazine’s continuation, we plan on making the feature story different each month by allowing readers to write in with their family history and interviews.     How did you...