Mid Term Submission

For my magazine cover I choose this picture because of the positioning of the horse made it easy to position my article samples on the sides and I liked how this picture came out overall. I made the first part of my titles yellow to get  the attention of the reader. I also made the main title above bold and with a bit of shadow under the letters to help it stand out from the white clouds in the background. I wanted to keep the horses face visible and still have room for my title samples around the cover which was a big reason as to why I choose this picture over the others that I had.

                                               

For my table of contents I made the background a different color because I tried with a white background but it made the page seem empty and bad and made the pictures look worse. I made the color a soft red because it made the text on the page look better with the red "contents" and the yellow titles. One of  the magazines I saw had the page numbers on the side of the titles and I thought it looked really good and I tried my best to do something similar. For my main titles I decided to make them yellow just to give them a bit more color and make them stand out more and I added a brief descriptions of the articles next to the titles similar to how the magazine I saw earlier looked for the photos I chose some of my best pictures and pictures that would best fit one of the main articles. For my other articles I put them on the bottom those are less important articles that aren't as big as the main three but are still big enough to get onto the page. Overall I tried my best to make my table of contents page look similar to the original magazine I saw but I was pretty limited the only changes I would make though is adding a bit of design around the page. 

Photo Shoot Schedule

For my photos I decided to take most of them at the farm and I chose to take most of them during the sunset because it made the pictures look a lot better with the lighting and everything. All my photos were of animals like horses, dogs, turkeys and more again fitting with my type of magazine. Taking the photos was a bit of a challenge because animals are kinda hard to work with but I think I got a lot of really good pictures and i'm very happy with how they turned out. My process to take these photos was mostly walking around the farm and finding a good angle to work with and trying to get good timing when the animals aren't moving around to much. The cat and the cows were incredibly difficult to get pictures of due to them moving around the most and just overall bad settings so I don't think i'll use most of those pictures. Overall i'm pretty happy with how these photos turned out with the lighting really making some of them look good.

 

Flat Plan

For my magazine I tried to make it so that its really easy to read and enjoyable for the reader. One way I tried to make it easy to read was making everything fit on two pages next to each other like the table of contents are right next to each other and there's no ad in between so the reader can simply read through the table and not have anything in the way. Most of my articles are 2 page articles with a few exceptions and like the table of contents I tried to keep most of the articles on the same two pages so you have everything right in front of you and you don't need to change pages to get the full story and so that there's no ads in the way. In the smaller one page articles I kept most of them on the left page so that the ads on the right side of the page are the first things you see and get your attention which is good for the products the ads are about because that's the first thing you see. Another thing I did was keep my articles brief the majority of them are one or two pages which makes for a nice quick read. I also didn't want to go all out with the ads, for the majority of my magazine there's usually two or three ads in between articles and they are also placed in the same two pages next to each other so that the viewer sees them alone better than next to an article which would probably make then skip over the ad since they're here for the articles anyway. All of my articles are animal related again fitting my type of magazine and they're fairly quick and simple something that people would find themselves clicking on if they were online. My magazine is also made for the area in which it would be sold and there's articles about nearby locations for your pet and and most of the locations are fairly local.

Scouting Photo Locations

The locations i'm choosing for my photos is a farm called Prospect and the other location will be in my neighborhood. I'm choosing Prospect because they have a large variety of animals like horses, turkeys, cows, cats, and chickens. I choose my neighborhood because there's places with a lot of grass and trees so it will look like its in a more natural setting. Another area i'm thinking about is Nathan Benderson Park because there are areas that are good settings for photos. The last potential location would be Urfer park because there's a large trail with many open areas and nice visuals to take photos. I think the main location would be the farm just because there will be a larger variety of subjects to take photos of whereas the other locations would mostly have pictures of my dog. My second location would be in my neighborhood and although the pictures will be mostly my dog there's a larger variety in setting then there would be at the farm. Overall my neighborhood and the farm will be my main locations for the pictures but there will be a few pictures from different locations as well.

Table of Contents

In my table of contents I will have my main stories on the top of the page and make it go through the center and there will be brief descriptions of the stories. On the bottom of the page i'll have the smaller stories all together and there will not be any descriptions for the smaller stories. For the main stories I will have the page numbers and titles in larger and in bold text. The descriptions will be in the standard font and size and will be very brief  no more than two or three sentences and off to the side will be the authors name. For the pictures I will have pictures from the big main stories near the center of the page in between some of the contents listings and these will be sized down a bit to fit the rest of the contents on the page while on their respective article pages their sizes will be enlarged.

Cover Template

The title for my magazine will be Ark because its mainly focused on animals and wildlife. I chose this title because its a nice and simple title but also tells you that its an animal related magazine. The font i'm choosing for the cover is Bebas neue because its similar to other magazines with the same idea of animals/nature. Although its similar to the fonts used in other magazines it still is different and another reason I chose it was because its fairly big and bold which would make it stand out compared to other magazines. Inside the magazine for the articles I will be using a standard font.