Preliminary Front Cover Magazine

 Rough Draft:

             I'm currently working on my Front Cover Fitness Magazine. It is a rough draft and I will continue to work on it.

   I added content, I want the reader to know what type of information can be found inside the magazine. The red color of the title stands out a lot. I also want to start to take pictures using portrait mode on my iPhone, when I took all my pictures I didn't use that technique but I want to try it and maybe see how it would look as in the front cover and throughout my magazine. What this mode does is blur the background.

    I'm using Canva.com, so far as the website to design my magazine. It seems like a very user friendly website and I like it. I've used this website before for other school assignments, so I'm not totally new to it. There is a wide variety of designs I can use.

                             

Timeline

Timeline:

February 16 4:55pm

I scouted areas in my gym for possible magazine cover shots.

   

February 24

  My teacher told the class that we need to start taking pictures or film, for our projects. As soon as she told us, I started to think of who I could possibly take photos of and my friend came into mind. So I texted my friend Nick, who is the closest friend of mine who matches the description of the type of person I want for my Fitness Magazine.

February 27 1:00pm

My friend Nick and I met at the local gym and I took multiple shots of him.

March 9 

Editing up my timeline magazine blog.

March 10 

Work on my magazine progress report.

March 11

Developing Content. Have everything up to date by midnight for my AICE MEDIA STUDIES class. I went to a Starbucks near my house to work on it. 

March 12

Asked a classmate of mine if we could meet at a Starbucks and give advice to each other and feedback on our current Magazine Blogs.

     March 13

Met at a Starbucks and worked on my blogs. She suggested some good editing websites I could use for my pictures. And I also worked on some content for my magazine.

TBA

     

      I have to take more photos for my magazine and develop content for my double page spread analysis; different types of exercises.

Preliminary Table of Contents

I'm working on what more titles I should include in my table of contents. Such as like what sub headings, and how to layout completely my magazine. 

I'm still using the Canva website. I did have trouble inserting the images onto the table of contents. Instead of just pasting it on the page, it was inserting the image as a whole background for the entire page.

I still have more ideas in mind and will be adding more into my final table of contents, as this was only a rough draft and was exploring designs and content. My Table of Contents design will most likely change.

 

Photoshoot

 Photoshoot:

      I went to the gym and took multiple pictures for my magazine. I'm testing out the angles and analyzing the best possible pictures to include in my content and front cover. I asked a close friend of mine if he could be in my magazine and he said yes. He's a young male and athletic. I chose him because he matches the description of the type of person I want to be in my magazine.

     I'm currently posting unedited raw images.I used my iPhone 12 to take these pictures. In the future I will edit it and blur out the faces in the background so that it can focus on the front cover person.

I will still be adding more photos to my collection and constantly finding better angles and ways to improve my Fitness Magazine.

Lighting

 Lighting:

      Lighting is the most important component of any picture. Without light you won't even be able to see the image. The two main types of lighting are natural and artificial lighting. My magazine is going to consist mainly of natural lighting. The location of my my magazine is going to be the gym and in my gym there is a lot of windows, which sunlight comes through and ignites the place. And I'm taking the shots in the daytime in order to take full advantage of this lighting because I believe that natural lighting is the best type of lighting. Of course my magazine is not just going to contain natural lighting but also some artificial lighting. 

Here's an example of one of the artificial lighting shots that I took for my magazine:

I like the color of the whole room, it's a blueish purple color. It also sets out a mood or tone for the reader to grasp.

   The location of a photoshoot determines the lighting. If the images are taken in a room without windows, natural lighting won't even be an option. The most common use of lighting for fitness magazines are is natural lighting, they mostly use lighting equipment hat prevail different types of artificial lighting. But in contrast, my magazine is going to use mainly natural lighting. However some fitness magazine do use natural lighting but the location is almost never at the gym it's mostly outdoor at like beaches and parks. Here's an example of a magazines using natural lighting.

    In both pictures use can clearly see the use of natural lighting. In the first image, the face of the women is shined on by the natural rays of the sun, making her skin glow as its said in the magazine. On the second image the whole frame is filled with natural lighting. This type of lighting attracts reader's as it gives out a beautiful scenery, concluding that it is probably a sunrise or sundown. 

         Lighting is an extraordinary key factor in creating successful shots. Natural lighting gives out features that no other type of lighting can give out. I'm going to take advantage of natural lighting so my shots are going to be mostly in the daytime where natural lighting comes in my gym. Natural lighting gives out a more vibrant feeling that I personally think will make my magazine more aesthetically pleasing.

https://markbrion.com/the-importance-of-light-in-photography/

Color

 Color:

        Color is extremely important in every aspect, especially on deciding what color is going to be my magazine. Color influences the audience. A way that makes any magazine page outstanding is the colors that are used. The colors can reflect on the mood of the reader. Color adds meaning to a page instead of having a plain white page. 

Selecting the wrong color can cause disengagement of reader's. There are three primary colors which are: blue, red, and yellow.

Warm colors: Orange, Red, Yellow. These colors evoke energy and passion.

Neutral Colors: Black, Brown, White. Used very often as background colors. White and Black are one of the most used colors in magazines, they match and go along with any layout or color. And then brown gives out a very funky feeling.

The masthead of my fitness magazine is going to be Red. I'm choosing red because it's a very vibrant color, it could be seen from far away and also catches the attention of the reader from the rest of the colors. Red is also a vey popular color among fitness magazines.

Here is an example of a masthead in Red

   

       According to the institute of Color Research, people make judgement on your content "in 90 seconds or less", and the majority of the judgement is based out of color. My magazine is going to have a more sense of different coloring, due to the background being the gym. I'm going to use white as the color of my content in the front cover and then black inside the content of the magazine, paragraphs, articles etc. I'm going to use many different other bright colors because color is important and using different colors is more amusing than being plain. The audience's eyes are more likely to catch the eye of rainbow colors than just plain dark gloomy colors.

https://www.flip180media.com/tips-for-periodical-publishers/color-theory-designing-your-digital-publication/

Layout/Preliminary Sketches

 Experimenting Front Cover Layout:

             I'm experimenting with what could be the possible layout of my front cover fitness magazine. I started with the Masthead being titled "THE PUMP", it was personally my favorite title and also was the most popular in the magazine survey I created earlier. I might color it a bright red in the future. I used bubble letters because I think it's one of the most creative ways on how to draws it, instead of just writing it in bigger letters, because it does look better in creativity.

        Below the Masthead I have a male, lifting up an olympic barbell with weights on it. If I decide to change the pose in the future it would still be a pose involving the person holding some sort of weights. I'm not a good drawer but I tried my best to include some muscular features on the sketch, obviously having a fit person on my front cover. Also, in my survey I gave multiple options on what the person should be doing, between lifting weights, stretching etc, and lifting weights was the most popular choice. I'm not solely depending on my survey but it does work as a guide. I made it for the weights to be holding it above the head so that in the future when we take the actual pictures, the person's facial features won't be covered by the weights.

      I decided that I also wanted to sketch the location (gym), which in my case it would be seen in the background of the magazine. Some of the equipment seen are dumbbells, benchpress and a treadmill. These are all types of equipment that are going to be used in the content of my magazine. I want to make it clear in my blog, the environment.

       On the final layout I'm going to have quotes and content all over the front cover regarding fitness, as these are major features of a fitness magazine. The content is going to be in large letters, so that the reader can see it from far away. I included a dumbbell rack next to the person so that you can still have a felling of the background through just the sketch.