Vance's Magazine

blog #17 I finished my cover magazine and like the result of it. I think the cut out of jack could have been better than what I did. My lack of experience in photoshop limits the things I can do. I did the best of my ability to make it look professional. I put an IQ scan code on my magazine to make the magazine look professional and look like if would be in a grocery store or a book store. I am going to put my finished product down below. I started on the table of contents. I chose the same font as my cover page. The font is called Soccer League, I download the fonts off the DaFonts.com. The website has thousands of fonts for free to download. The table of contents should not take me that long to finish as the cover page as it is less editing and photoshopping. I am going to be working on the table of contents at my house since I am coming down to the final weeks and need to get the magazine finished.

blog #16 I started to make the articles that are going to be featured on the main articles. The articles that I that I  choose to feature on my magazine are " Top youth strikers in the country", "School fire takes life of soccer player, school pays respect", and "Sarasota High's undefeated record". Some of the articles are false and made up, an example of this was the School fire takes life of soccer player. The reason that I created this article is because it attracts attention to the magazine and stands out to the public and makes the reader want to buy the magazine. When I created the article title of "Sarasota High's Undefeated Record", I plan to interview one of the players on the team to be able to talk about the history of the team and how the team plays together. I have created all of the articles and put them in my magazine cover page. The image below is how our magazine is now of today.

Blog #15 The interview went very well as I recorded all of the questions and responses. All of the responses that I record were good pieces of evidence. These are some of the questions and responses I recevied. How many years have your been playing soccer? I started playing soccer in 7th grade on the middle school team, I have never played club soccer. How has this year been compared to other years? We would use the interview questions for half of the article and them the other half of the article information of the soccer team and the success.

Blog #14 Today we are doing interview questions, I thought that it would be a good idea to interview someone that has good experience in the soccer community and world. I thought that it would be best to interview Rafael. Rafael is on a team with an undefeated record which is making him a credible source to interview. Interviewing Rafael would be also very convenient since I see him every day and he's in my group. I will be conducting the interview tomorrow during class, the questions that I will be asking Rafael are these: How have the past years been compared to this year? What type of training are you doing? What is your diet consist of? What are your future successes? How long have you been playing the sport? Who are some soccer icons that inspired you? Have you had any injuries?What position do you play? why? There may be more questions that we ask but those are the questions for now, we will be record all the questions on the next blog. We will be conducting these ques...

Blog #13 This week we made changes to our font and color of the border. We have yet to settle for a color or pattern for the border. We were orginally thinking a yellow border but it would be the same as national geographic. We are also thinking of the question that we are going to ask when interviewing our subjects. We have to think in a way to make the questions more than one-word answers.  Some of the questions we are going to ask is: waht is your daily routine like?why did you want to start this sport? what is your diet like?

Blog #12 Today I am still consistantly working inside of photoshop editing the cover of the magazine. Over the weekend I decided to change the photo that is going to be the cover page. The reason that I decided to change the photo is because the photo previously doesn't resemble soccer. It is just a picture of Rafael in a soccer jersey he isn't holding a soccer ball of any sort. The current photo I am editing has a ball in the photo resembling soccer. This will let the reader know what the magazine is about. This is the photo we are going to use. The photo appears the be bad quality in the blog, but inside of photoshop it is higher quality.

Blog Post #11 Today I am working in photoshop trying to find out how I would blur the background of the photo to make Rafael standout to the background. This is a difficult thing to figure out for me as I have not used photoshop in 2 years. The way I am going to figure out how to do it is by youtube. Youtube has millions of instructional videos on how to work with photoshop and how to do difficult maneuver. We are also going to have a gold border around magazine to make the cover page the focus. So I am heavily reliant on youtube and tutorials as of now.