Amanda Media Studies

     Putting together my mood board for my magazine really helped me realized what kinds of colors, fonts, textures, and photos I want for my actual magazine. It also helped direct my idea from a vague concept to a more specific one.      As I was looking through the different magazines from which I cut my pictures and words, I realized that I want a brighter color scheme to reflect my magazines theme about happiness and optimism.  In the image I tried to include a lot of green and yellow with pops of red, which I circled in red to the left. At first, I had issues picking out the colors. I had purple and pink in mind, but I had to go with yellow and green because it just fit my magazine so well. The green is very natural looking and bright like a grass green rather than the darker shades of green like olive which will relate to the natural vibe I want to go for. The yellow is bright like the sun and exudes cheerfulness which will be the theme of m...

     I have learned much about how I want my magazine to look and how to set up my presentation through my classmates’ projects about ten different magazines, their covers, and their house styles. Each project talked about a different magazine and the unique features of their covers. Each of these features seemed to repeat themselves in order to set up a specific theme or “house style.”      As I watched the presentations, there were some magazines that stood out to me. One that particularly caught my eye was  ESPN . I love how it had a minimalist design; I thought it was clean and polished.  It made me realize I want to go for a similar look for my magazine. The only thing I would add is more anchorage, like for example in  Rolling Stone . In fact, something I liked about  Rolling Stone  is the masthead. It was always in the same place and more or less the same size, something that was not apparent in  ESPN . Additional...