Category: AS Research and Planning

As I’ve seen so far, creating a magazine comes with its set of challenges and there are a bunch of things that could go wrong. From tight deadlines to staying inspired, I’ve thought about the risks and how to handle them. By planning ahead, I’ll make sure the magazine stays…

List of all the costs: total: 200 lei (40 €) These are my costs only since I’m doing most of the work and not doing every part of the production process. But this is a more realistic table of a real production of the magazine: Also, in order to be…

This photoshoot is for the article “Finishing Touches”. idea and concept After I researched on Pinterest for this topic, I started saving the photos I liked the most and organised them into some categories so I know better what I want from each page. This way I am able to…

This photoshoot is for both of the cover images (front and back) and the image from the table of contents and editorial. idea and concept After some research I found some photo inspiration (I know they are pretty diverse but I am not sure yet how they will turn out…

A big problem that I encountered was that I firstly decided to target both males and females. As I kept going with this idea I started noticing a lot of problems that occurred. I really wanted to make it for both genders as I thought it would reach a wider…

front cover To illustrate that the magazine is for females, it would make sense that the front cover features a female. To reinforce the masthead, I’m going to try and find some crazy/unique poses and angles for my model. The location for this photoshoot will be outside (somewhere in nature),…

genre The genre of my magazine is lifestyle. It is aimed at a younger audience (18-35), and focuses on topics such as fashion, traveling, relationships, young voices and photography. Many other topics are covered through different issues, so the topics are relevant and various. masthead The word Sonder means the…

After finding the main topics I want to focus on, I need to find interesting articles to write about, and good headlines, since they are the first point of interaction a reader has with my magazine. I took some time to brainstorm some ideas. After starting with some big and…

Before choosing the fonts I wanted to do some research and understand better how to make meaningful choices for the text. I found out that google has a lot of articles that can clarify very easily how everything works. So, after reading some, that I thought were most important for…

A feature article is a persuasive text that expresses an opinion, informs the reader about a subject and is enjoyable to read. research: While researching on how to write an article, I found this site that offers the conventional structure of a feature magazine and gives helpful tips. I then…