Magazine Cover

To finalize my magazine I had to place the image that I chose for the magazine cover. I also had to edit the image using Canva. I adjusted and cut off the background of the image so that the body was the only thing showing up in the magazine. The fonts of the magazine was made smaller so that the image was bigger and had more space. Finally, the image was put to take up most of the magazine and when I looked at other baseball magazines, the image even took a bit out of the name of the magazine, so that is what I did.

Draft Magazine cover

The magazine cover is almost finished but I need to choose an image to place on the cover. The image I will probably used is one of the mid-shots of him in his pitching motion. The next post will have the finalize product of the cover.

This cover I will be asking people on what they think about it and make any changes to finalize the product and make it look like a professional magazine.

Model Images

Here are the pictures that I will be using for my magazine. I will be choosing one of these for the cover and the other ones will be see on the table of contents and then one image will also be used for the double page spread.
Some of the images were action shots and the other two were just setup like that.

Questions for Cover athlete

In this post I will be providing the questions that I will be asking my cover athlete, Nolan Santos.
These questions will help me create the feature story and get to know a little bit more about my athlete.

10 Questions

1.  What made you pursue the game of baseball?
2. What is the biggest difference between college and high school? (academically and sport)
3. How do you balance being a student athlete?
4. What are your pre-game rituals before a game?
5. Who is your role model in baseball and in life?
6. What is the best moment you had in your career so far?
7. How was baseball your Senior year of high school?(Offers, experience, teammate views)
8. Who are your biggest supporters?
9. What are your goals for being a freshman in college?
10. Do you plan on continuing baseball after college? 

Magazine color scheme updated

Since I had a change in the featured athlete in my magazine then I will also have to change the color scheme that the magazine will be using. The colors will be of the University that he attends which is Bethune-Cookman University. The colors of the University is maroon and gold. I will have an image of the athlete in his uniform and in different poses. Then, I will choose the best pose I feel is the best fit for the magazine. The cover of the magazine will be using the color black as well and the lettering will be in the colors of the school. The black background will make the athlete pop out and the lettering since the colors of the school are bright colors. The athlete will also have to wear his alternative uniform which is maroon so that he may stand out and be the main image of the magazine.

Maroon:                                                                                                                    Gold:

New magazine themed athelete

As going through my research and talking with my classmate, I noticed that the featured story should be about an athlete that has a chance of going pro. Also, the athlete should be going to a good college and be playing a division 1 sport. The sport I am doing is baseball so through the research I have a good friend of mine that is playing at a great school and has won many achievements in his high school life. His name is Nolan Santos and he will be the candidate I will be using for the magazine. He will be the featured athlete. The double page spread article will be about the struggles he had to go through and what his routine was. Also, it will talk about what motivated him to continue to play the game of baseball. Then the article will talk about his college life so far and what he feels he brings to his college program.

Magazine color scheme

The colors that I will be using for my magazine will be the colors of the school team I am doing. The school team I am using is from American Senior High School and there colors are red, white, and blue. The colors that are in the magazine have a significance and meaning to them in media. Through my research, I found out the significance of these colors are:

Red
In media this color is used to portray energy. This color is an intense color and it is used in most magazines because the color may have meanings. Depending on the shade of red then that will represent the meaning. For example if the red is very light means to be energetic, while a darker shade of red is meant to show power.

White
The color white in media is used to portray goodness. White may be used with any other color and this color will be used throughout small sections in my magazine, especially in the cover.

Blue
The color blue that I will be using is navy blue which is a dark blue shade. The dark blue shade portrays knowledge and power. This color blue will be used throughout most parts of my magazine and I am still not sure what color will be the main color. It is either blue or red.

Magazine Model Ideas

For the magazine that I am creating I will need to choose a model that is from my high school since I will be doing it on a high school sport. Also, the model needs to play the sport baseball since that is the sport I choose to do. The two ideas that I have is to have a single athlete or a trio. For a single athlete I would make him the center of the magazine and I will get an action shot of him doing some type of movement relevant to baseball. Where if I were to do a trio in the magazine then I would have one person with a bat, a player with just a glove, and a player with him holding a ball out in front and all of them standing next to each other. Then after choosing how many models I will need, then I will confirm a date with the model or models so that they all come dressed in the proper uniform attire. Finally, the featured athlete or athlete will then have a story and their color background will be red, white, or blue since those are the colors of the high school that the athletes play for.

Influence in Media "Representation"

In this post I will be talking about representation and the significance this word has in media. Representation is the way the media portrays a particular group or community. The media may change the way a particular event is seen. People tend to believe what the media puts out. A great example is in politics. Usually when a politician gives its speech, the media tends to make the speech support there side and it is not what that person meant to say. In representation, codes are used in the media to make the magazine look as relevant to the problem as possible and so that it attracts the people interested in that topic.
For the magazine that I will be creating, I need to make sure that my sports athlete is represented to the best of my abilities. I will need to use the codes correctly so I gain an audience that will be interested in the magazine that I create.

Source:

• “Representation.” Media Studies Private Community., https://media-studies.tki.org.nz/Teaching-media-studies/Media-concepts/Representation.

Influence in Media "Media Reinforcement theory"

In this post I will be discussing the media reinforcement theory. This theory suggest that the media is not responsible for establishing or changing the beliefs of people. The theory says that media can only further support your personal opinions. The media viewpoint will be used as people support when explaining there side or the media can give people evidence. Most of the times people's viewpoint are already established before they read the magazine and the magazine "reinforces" there opinion. For my magazine the player or team that I write my magazine on will help people support there opinion on the team or person. For example if I right about the MLB (major league baseball) team, the Astros and about how they "cheated" to win the World Series then I will have an audience who dislikes this particular baseball team and the magazine purpose will not establish anyone's opinion but will instead further support there opinion.


Source:

• Andina-Díaz, Ascensión. “Reinforcement vs. Change: The Political Influence of the Media.” SpringerLink, Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers, 12 Dec. 2006, https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11127-006-9105-1.