Day 5

DAY 5: Preliminary Exercises

Towards the beginning of this school year, my group and I deconstructed the cover of a magazine to further understand the elements needed to craft a perfect magazine. This deconstruction led us in the direction we needed to conduct this project. We learned about the importance of the mode of address and how it influences our audience's opinion on whether or not to pick up the magazine in the store or not. We learned about the importance of the font and size of our title. These factors can influence an outside view of a magazine as a title that is small and uninteresting is not going to get purchased while something that jumps out at you from the magazine stand will interest you enough to buy it or, at the least, pick it up and skim through it. These preliminary exercises were enough to help understand what goes into a magazine that will actually make it interesting.

My group and I also crafted the cover of a magazine, this truly helped us discover how to appeal and draw in an audience with just a cover. We created a hip-hop oriented magazine covering the rap artist Drake being deceased to try and "bait" the audience into purchases. The article was about Drake's career being dead after the release of terrible tracks and albums. Anyways, the magazine taught us how to craft a magazine cover that would be visually appealing to emotions. Our words and our title needed to correspond with the image to bring the audience to be encapsulated in the cover enough to purchase it.