Picture Perfect

I was able to get a hold of one model before they were whisked away to vacation with their families and friends, Iniya. As I said before, I've only known her for a few months, and only through school, therefore, I thought the whole experience was going to be an awkward one. After picking her up and then a short drive to the community park, I was already sweating bullets. I had a set idea of what I wanted the pictures to look like, but I didn't what to put Iniya in an uncomfortable position in which I wouldn't capture the raw emotion I craved.
However, the whole shoot went amazingly. Instead of me coaching her, Iniya's friendly vibes aided to calm me down. She was amazing, owning the camera and thinking throughly on each pose she presented to me. She was not even a little bit scared of the camera straight up in her face. She glowed. I am so impressed with her.
I was able to collect more than 70 pictures, but I've narrowed it down to 40 pictures. This is a lot, I know, but their were so many positions that I couldn't leave out! Yet one picture stood out the most to me.

Since the style of my magazine consist of black and white, the shadow on her face ties to the theme. I was experimenting with editing, and filters, but overall I think the original image is better. You can’t forget the essential part of tightening the image with a crop.

The Ongoing Struggle

Time to find a new font, again. I find that Pinterest overwhelms me with so many possibilities that I forget the focus of my magazine, there for I will be keeping it simple. Apple has plenty of fonts built into my mac computer, each font family holds variation as well, bold, underlined, shadow, italic, etc. I carved out a 2 hour block to search freely for at least 5 finalist. This is what I came back with:

Based on the idea of my black and white style, my Masthead will maintain that style. I believe that with this, my table of contents is matching my cover page. (yay) After consulting 3 other peers, I went with choice number 2. Simple is better. I came into this project with a simple idea, but I somehow lost face of that. But no more!
Simplicity is the path.

P.S. I've been working on the Table of Contents. It's been frustrating to have each page match in exactly the same position so when put next to each other, the two pages that consist the Table of Contents would match, yet it has significantly improved. Check in soon for the final product.

Too much Information

It's time to get started with the cover page, but where to begin? Layout seems like the safest bet.

Popular female fashion magazine include Elle, Cosmopolitan, and Fashion. These magazine promote many coverlines highlighting various stories, but in my opinion, I think it clusters the cover with an too much information.

Relating to the ASOS magazine I've mentioned before, the cover image holds the most focus of the whole page. Not only that, but their cover is not so flashy or vividly colored which doesn’t take away from the image itself. The elements all work together as if they could all be found in the world in which the cover image was taken.
However an aspect of the cover page above which really makes it stand out is the the model's facial expression. I plan to use this as an example to harvest the model for my cover so they are able to capture the audience's attention... to be something they just can't ignore. I imagine many professionals study for years in order to master this skill, but I will only have about 2 weeks to grasp it.
Wish me luck!

Citations:

>Lawrence, M. (1970, January 01). New Fashion City. Retrieved February 28, 2018, from http://new-fashion-city.blogspot.com/
>Roberts, K., Mackelden, A., Holmes, S., Shneid, R., Tang, E., Saujani, R., . . . Associated Press. (n.d.). Elle. Retrieved March 01, 2018, from https://www.elle.com/
>Perle, L., Beck, L., Zaucha, A., Kamphausen, K., Urquhart, T., Hsieh, C., . . . Associated Press. (n.d.). Cosmopolitan. Retrieved March 01, 2018, from https://www.cosmopolitan.com/
>Female. (n.d.). Retrieved March 01, 2018, from https://fashionmagazine.com/tag/female/