Creative Critical Reflection Draft #2

How does your product engage with audiences and how would it be distributed as a real media context?

The product engages with the audience through visual context. The title is the first step to engage the audience, it communicates the nature of the content of the magazine. The cover photo is an action shot , this is where the audience is originally engaged. The contrast between the title and the background also draws the eye of the audience in. Engaging the audience in this way aids in distribution. In a real media context this magazine would be distributed through print and digital distribution. On the print side of the spectrum we will distribute the magazine at high school sports games and in the front office of high schools. On the digital side of the spectrum there will be a website. The website will focus on distributing pictures and video content.

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Interviews & Questions

While working on developing my interview questions I had to decide what I wanted to write about. Due to the time of year I decided I wanted to write about winter training. A series of intense workouts that aim to make everyone on the team faster on the water. Due to the fact that I am a rower it was hard to ask questions, because I already know the answers to most of them, but I managed to come up with some 1. By your definition what is winter training ? 2. Do you think it is a necessary part of training ? 3. If you had a choice would you choose to winter train? 4. What is your reasoning ? 5. What is the most important part of rowing? 6. What is something that most people don't know about rowing ? I conducted these interviews either before or after practice.

Revision-Cover page

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

Creative Critical Reflection Draft #1

How does your product use or challenge conventions and how does it represent social groups or issues? The genre of this magazine is sports. This determines the conventions that we have to either adhere to or challenge. In our case we chose to adhere to them, using a sport like font , the feature article titles present on the cover, using the same sport like font throughout the entire magazine, etc. On the cover page we used the title "SOFLO SPORTS" which fits the standards of the genre. Many sports magazines contain a word in their title that make it clear to the consumer the topic of magazine. In addition we had our three feature articles present on the cover as we noticed was a reoccurring trait during our research into other magazines. Finally for the cover, each of us made sure to use a dominant action photo. Another trait that we spotted during our research. Finally we added a border, which is a characteristic seen only in some magazines but we decided to use in order...

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