AICE Media Studies Blog

According to my last post the cover page needed to be revised. This includes changing the title from Sota Sports to Soflo Sports. This makes sure that the magazine can have a larger audience and a more realistic chance of being a successful business. In addition I added a border and worked on the cover in Photoshop in order to give it depth in the title and an overall more sporty look.  Finally we changed the font of the feature article titles. In this way the magazine title would pop more.  Final Cover Page  Original Cover Page  Cover Page Template 

I will add variety to the photos in my article, according the feedback they were all very similar. Therefore it would be in my best interest to schedule more photo shoots. For my table of contents I plan on removing the photo from the background so the text  can be seen clearer and to cut costs. In addition I plan on better coordinating what actually appears on our table of contents to be more cohesive.  on the cover page I plan adding more text so the space is more filled. We are considering changing the name of the magazine from Sota Sports to Soflo sports (South Florida) due to the fact that it will widen our target audience and make our magazine more realistic.

The genre for our magazine is sports, specifically sports in high school. We used the conventions of this genre rather than challenged them. We used a font for the cover  title that was similar to the ones used on jerseys, which makes the sports theme evident.  This is something we found was used on the published magazines that we analyzed. In addition we used the concept of putting the feature titles on front page. For the cover photo I used an action shot as is typical of a sports magazine.  The table contents uses the same font as the cover page but the features are  in bold and slightly bigger. The page numbers are large as is typical of a sports magazine. For the article page I used a dominant photo at the top of the first page and the page numbers were cohesive with the table of contents. The magazine targets the social group of high school athletes. Even though the magazine is based in Sarasota the articles on health and training still apply to athletes across...