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AS Final Project

The Final

   I am working on my magazine on Joomag. It has a cover, a two page spread contents, and a two page spread for my article. I am finishing up my pictures this morning for my cover and one or tow for my contents. Later today I am making the chili to take a picture of it to use on my two page spread. Below are pictures that I am using. I am trying to take new running pictures to make it a three picture panel of continuous motion. This model is Caitlin for all three pictures.

Say Cheese!

   Today I took all my pictures that I needed from Caitlin. The pictures with her eating a lot of food came out perfect. We had marshmellows. We had ice cream. Pretzals. Cookie Butter. Cookies. We had every single sugary food in her house sitting on her bed. This picture goes with Sugar Crave Gone Wrong. We also took pictures for Build Muscle in 3..2..1. For Runner's World, I took sport mode pictures of Caitlin running. I am planning on putting them in one panel. I have already started to edit some pictures I previously took. The other pictures I need are the ones for 7 Places to Buy Affordable Shoes and Your Partner is Your Fitness Partner.
   I have already written my article and I think it came out great. There's just one problem: I feel it's not professional. It starts out professional with a statics and then ends with "yeah the diet works but the one thing I learned is that everybody type is beautiful." So, I need to work on that.

Thoughts Before the Editing Begins

     This is week four of the project. For four weeks I have been putting thoughts and ideas about my project down on this blog. This post is going what I'm doing; not 100% but more like 95%. I hope by doing this it will be easy for the nest couple of weeks for me to just edit and of course put together a magazine.

     On the cover, the masthead will say strong in low case letters. The color of the masthead will either be a bright red or black. Red represents action, energy and speed, attention-getting, assertive and confident, energizing, stimulating, exciting, powerful, passionate, stimulating and driven, courageous and strong, spontaneous and determined. While black represents protection and comfort, strong, contained, formal, sophisticated, seductive, and mysterious. Both are colors that define the word strong. I'm not using a sell line nor a date line. I read Health, Women's Health, Fitness, and Self on the daily and only Health has a sell line. Out of the four zero have a date line except on the side of the magazine. The main cover line is Fit, Firm, & Fierce.  Fit, Firm, & Fierce is steps you feel while on the 'diet.' The diet for some reason makes working out easier (fit) and as you continue this change in lifestyle, your body becomes more toned (firm) and as a result you become confident (fierce). The caption for my main cover line will be love the new you. Other cover lines will include Get Bikini Body Ready (great workouts, great recipes-in weeks), 33 Ways to Eat Cleaner, Your Man Can Be Your Workout Partner, 20 Summer Necessities, Perfect Skin Can Be Yours (super new and easy tricks that are zero effort), (shed pounds and get toned all over). I'm going to use captions for some of the cover lines; in parentheses. 

     The table of contents will be spread across two pages. The first page will have one big picture as its back ground. This page will have the cover lines and features. Page two of the table of contents will have mulitple pictures on it. This page will have main articles from each subcategory. The subcategories will be Beauty Buzz, Fit Tricks, Eat, Fashion Statement, Love, and of course Every Issue. Under Beauty Buzz, articles will include Natural Beauty, Beauty Benefits of Honey( a sweet treat for your skin and hair), 9 DIY Recipes(teeth whitening, blackhead removal, etc.),12 Products That Are Pure Genius ( 12 products that gets the job done).Under Fit Tricks, articles will include Kick Your Butt (try this full body at home kickboxing workout), Torch Belly Fat On Your Next Run, Build Muscle in 3..2..1, Beat Back Fat (exercises both at home and at the gym). Under Eat, articles will include 30 Foods That Taste Better Frozen, Sugar Crave Gone Wrong (Tips on Quitting Sugar), Sure Mix-Alot (best and worst foods to juice), Mix and Match Healthy Ingredients (step up your food game). Under Fashion Statement, 8 Style Mistakes When Working Out, DIY Workout Shirt (Turn an Old Gym Top into a Trendy New One), 7 Places to Buy Affordable Shoes(Perfect Shoes for the Perfect Workout). Under Love, articles will include 7 Must Fitness Dates(Active Date Ideas), What He Says vs. What He Thinks, 4 Ways Your Relationship Effects Your Eating Habits (does your mood effect what you eat and how much of it?). Under Every Issue, sections will include Inspiration For A Fit Nation, This vs. That, They Did It!, Editors Note, and Contributors.

     The two page spread for my article will include the article, pictures, tips and a recipe. I will have a side bar with some tips. I will also put a recipe for Turkey Chili. The pictures used in this two page spread will be pictures of Hannah at her house. 

Women's Health January/February 2015 edition

Women's Health March 2015 edition

Women's Health September 2014 edition

Fitness September 2014 edition

Self March 2015 edition

Self February 2015 edition

Health March 2015 edition

Health January/February 2015 edition

Model Pictures

Cover photo:

Table of contents:

Torch Fat All Day

Kick Your Butt:                                                                                        

Sugar Crave Gone Wrong:

Cook With Color:

Best Shoes For the Best Workout:

Is your man making you happy? - Your Partner is Your Fitness Partner

Picture

     Next week, I am taking all the pictures for my magazine. In this post I am going to explain the picture I want to take, how I'm going to take it and who's going to be in the picture.

Cover photo:
For my cover story, I am using my friend, Hannah, as the writer and experimenter. Therefore, I am going to use her as my cover photo focus. I think the picture will be taken at the beach. She will be wearing a bathing suit.

Article photos:
These photos will be of Hannah working out, preparing a meal, and sitting talking. The workouts will be outside in a field, the meal will be chili and her sitting. There will additionally be the photos of the chili.

Table of Contents photos:
#1: Zach will do a workout and it will be one of the pictures
#2: Caitlin eating a sugary dessert
#3: Nike shoes shaped in a heart
#4: If I can find boxing gloves- boxing gloves hanging