Final Magazine Project

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Third Quarter Revision Magazine Project

   

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Creative Critical Reflection draft

  4. I integrated technologies in this project by using Microsoft publisher and using the internet for research. When first starting my project I didn't really know what kind of layout I wanted for my magazine so I used to the internet to look up other magazine styles. By using the internet it really helped me understand what kind of magazine I wanted to do and I chose to do a health magazine. With choosing to do a health magazine I had to use the internet to look up the kind of pictures and magazine fonts used in a health magazine. Also during this project I used Microsoft publisher. Microsoft publisher helped a lot when creating my magazine, and it was really easy to use once I understood how to do things. Using Microsoft publisher I learned how to take a screen shot of the project and post that picture onto my blog. Overall integrating these technologies in my project helped make the process of creating my magazine easier.

Critical Creative Reflection draft

 3. The production skills that I developed throughout this project was learning how to ask questions and make the interview easy. When I did the interview for my magazine project with a nurse practitioner I learned how to ask certain questions and make the questions approachable. During the interview asking the questions was fairly easy and when the nurse was answering the questions she seemed to know the answer to every question.This made the interview a lot easier for both sides. Another production skill I learned doing this project was learning how to use Microsoft publisher. At first using publisher was a little hard because i didn't know how to use it because I used to doing thing on Microsoft word. But by doing the project I learned how to add text boxes and how to screen shot a picture of the project. Overall learning these skills during my project helped me understand and learn new things.

Critical Creative Reflection draft

 2. My product engages with the audiences because it is a health magazine. This helps people engage in healthy activities and lifestyles. This magazine is mostly going to appeal people that are involved or are interested in health. The people buying are product because they want an education on health and want to learn more, but people not really interested in health lifestyles and activities are not going to be interested in the magazine.The types of articles in the magazine are workout tips, health supplies and health careers. So the people interested in workouts and learning how to be fit may be appealed. Also the people interested in health supplies may appeal to the magazine so they can see latest gear and supplies and may want to go to the store and buy it. The people interested in health careers may appeal to the magazine because we get exclusive interviews from people that work in the health industry and they tell us what the job takes and why they like their job.
   My product would be distributed as a real media text because we would sell our product in grocery stores. By selling it in a grocery more people would see our magazine and would be open to more groups of people rather than just health people. For example if we sold our magazine at a grocery store someone may see the magazine and see that we have workout tips and health interviews and it could appeal to that person who necessarily isn't going to go to a gym to workout and doctors office to ask questions about health. Another place I would sell my product is a hospital. By selling my magazine at a hospital people already interested in health work there so people in that industry would appeal to the magazine because it is what they do for a living. The last place I would distribute my magazine is a health clinic. Selling in a health clinic could become a big deal because patients that need to get healthy go in and out, and by the patients seeing the magazine they may want to buy the magazine to get tips on getting healthy and fit. Overall distributing my magazine would be the same as a real media text because generally magazines are sold in places that appeal it's certain audience and most are sold in grocery stores where everyone goes to shop. I would market my magazine by giving free 2 week subscriptions in a health clinic by getting a good word out and then more people would want to to pay to get a weekly subscription.

Creative Critical Reflection draft

1. My product uses or challenges conventions because it doesn't have a standard look. For example a standard women's health magazine doesn't use the same font we do. For our magazine project we used an abundance amount of fonts. While standard magazines a couple of different ones. Standard health magazines usually have a font for titles then a different font for the actual article, but we used a different font for every categories which helps make the words pop more. Another example is that we wrote magazine on the side of our title. Standard health magazine don't really have that written but if they do it's not written the way we rote ours. This makes our magazines different. But my magazine uses conventions because we have both pictures and titles in our magazine. The use of titles and magazines really make the readers want to read the article.
   My magazine project represent social groups or issues because our magazine is a health magazine. This means that people interested in health are going to read the magazine. For example my magazine I interviewed a nurse practitioner. This article can help people that want to become a nurse or are interested in the field. What people can get out of reading my article is that they can know what job skills it takes and also what school requirements you have to do to get a job like that. Also in the article it describes the challenges that nurses go through which can help another health care person relate to the stories. But the magazine also has health tip and workouts which can help someone that want to become healthy and stay in shape. Overall this my magazine focuses on health and it opened up to health tips and workouts.

Project Revision

      The revision I made to my magazine project was I added a page number to the bottom center of the page. When I first turned in my project I didn't have any page numbers at all. This will help my magazine because this will now help the reader know what they are reading. I have the name of the featured article at the top of the page but putting the page number helps distinguish between pages. 

Project Revision

  The revision I made to my magazine project was I made the empty space in the magazine more usable by making the letters a little bit bigger font and also by expanding the purple boxes making the words in the boxes pop more. This can help my magazine by making it look not so dull and it looks like I have a lot more information than I really do. Also this makes the the table of contents all around better looking. 

Project Revision

For my magazine project I revised the font and the style of the feature on the front of my magazine. I used to have 4 features on the cover but then I soon realized that it looked better with two. So then I narrowed it down to only two features. Then I changed the font of the features from the generic calibri  to century gothic which made the cover pop and stand out a little better. 

Marketing Techniques

  As seen in the Superbowl commercials we watched there are many different ways/techniques you can market a product. For example in the Doritos commercial they used humor and the commercial reminded people why their product was fun. In our health magazine we could incorporate funny jokes about health and why it's important to stay healthy and make it fun but knowledgeable. Also another commercial we saw was the Heinz ketchup and the way they used marketing techniques was they used emotional appeal. A way to incorporate that into our magazine is to use words or phrases that sound like you want to buy our health magazine. These marketing techniques will both help people appeal to the product and make your product interesting.

Class Presentation and Feedback

I presented my magazine project in class. I first showed my blog from 2015 and described what i wrote in my blog then I showed the class my blog I did in 2016 which included pictures, magazine layout, problems that I faced and a draft of my magazine. When I presented my magazine I scrolled through each page of the magazine and told the class what I did for each page. What I did well was the layout of the magazine and that I included the table of contents which showed running pieces, featured articles and columns. What needs to be revised is I need to put page numbers on my magazine article. Also I need to change the font of the features presented on the cover page, but it was also recommend that I add a picture of a nurse because my article is about a nurse and I only have pictures of the tools nurses use. The last thing I need to revise is I need to fix the layout of my table of contents because their is a little to much space shown. The ideas I have about the revisions is I want all the empty space in the magazine filled up so the magazine doesn't look empty.

Second Quarter Revision Magazine Project

Magazine Pictures

 

This picture I am going to use as my cover, because it's clear on what nurses do as their job and what they are allowed to do in their job. 

     These are my pictures that I took for my magazine project. These pictures come from an actual doctors office and I took pictures of what a nurse practitioner does and what their daily job requires such as check ups and weighing patients. Also using gloves and mask to do daily procedures. Then a stethoscope to check patients heart beats and how they are breathing. Then lastly I chose to do a needle and medicine to show that nurses also give patients medicine with certain requirements. All of these pictures represent the daily requirements of a nurse practitioners job.  

Magazine Problem

 Working on my magazine project I have come across a problem. It has been difficult getting pictures for my project, because the pictures I need to get involve going to a doctors office and taking pictures there, but I haven't had the time to go get the pictures. Also I am having trouble deciding what kind of pictures I want to take for my project. I know I want to use health tools but I dont know excatly what tools I want to use in my project yet.

Table of Contents Layout

 This is the layout we are going to do for our table of contents. In our table of contents we want to add running pieces and have health facts, health occupations and featured articles which can include the tools in the medical field or the medicine. This magazine will feature about 60 pages of information on health and healthcare.

Fonts for Magazine

    All of the fonts above are what we considered doing for the title and the article font. With much considerastion we have chosen the last font for the title and it's called Freestyle Script in 125 number font. For the article/interview we chose to do the second one and it's called Copperplate Gothic Light and we haven't choosen a number font for that one yet. We chose to do these fonts for our magazine, because both fonts represent the way we want our magazine to look.