In our group, Asha has already taken her picture and she has started putting the words on her magazine picture. She thinks she might change the picture but for now it looks like this (see below). So what I plan on doing is having the Off The Rack part either on the top right or left, but most likely right. She has not added any writing yet but it will mostly just go around the main picture in the middle.

Over the weekend I once again did not take a picture for my magazine cover, and now I am behind. I have still been working on the other things that I need, but I have to get working on the magazine cover. Thanksgiving break is next week and I definitely have to take the picture and work on my project during the break or I will not finish. For the rest of the week me and my group plan on discussing the type of fonts we definitely want to use and where certain magazine parts are going to go. Therefore, once I do take the picture for my magazine cover, I can throw everything else right on it.

Today my group has been deciding on which types of font to use for our magazine covers. We have looked through several different types and we want to pick one that properly matches all of covers so they look somewhat alike. We have to work on having specific things that has on all of our magazines. We know that we are using sensei font for our slogan, and a normal bold font for our title. We also are going to use Helvetica font for any other words we have under everything.

Although I am still yet to start making my magazine cover because I don't have my picture yet, I am starting to think ahead of what I'm going to do next. Once I get everything I need I am going to try and start putting everything together. My group slightly discussed changing the way out title looks by putting "off the rack" under OTR instead of next to it. This could be something we do but we are still deciding on whether or not there will be enough room for a picture if we put it under. Once we figure that out, i pretty much have the basic idea of how I want to organize everything on my magazine, but it is possible I will think of new things as I go on.

This post will contain the thoughts I have to use for the sub topics in the magazine. Obviously I would like them to relate either to fashion or summer. One of the topics I would like to include is summer sports like baseball, soccer and swimming and the type of fashion styles they have to deal with. Another sub topic I could include is a type of bathing suit that is frequently worn. Other than that I will include any type of trending fashion styles but i just wanted to have different types of styles to include into the magazine.

This weekend I was supposed to go and take pictures with my friend, but it didn't work out because i had unexpected plans on Saturday, and she did too on Sunday. We have it scheduled again for this weekend where we can hopefully meet up at the beach on Saturday or Sunday. One thing we did discuss this weekend is for her to wear a darker color bathing suit so it can match with the more mysterious type of feeling for the magazine. Preferably she wears any type of dark blur or purple bathing suit to match the tone of everything.

Housestyle

For the House Style of this magazine, I want it to have a more of a mysterious feeling to it. I will use a font that has a type of sharp font to it. It will mostly contain of a color that blends into the background well, but also has a mysterious tone to it. I would like the model in the middle to have a serious look on her face so it can match with the rest of the tone around her.

My photo shoot will happen this weekend and here is all the information I would like the person to do. I am using my friend who is a model who agreed to go to the beach with me this weekend. The location will be the pier at the beach, I will us portrait mode on my Iphone, and they will be wear their bathing suit and maybe a bracelet. I plan on taking the picture near their knees up so the fashion is available. The lighting will obvious come from the sun, and maybe it will be sunset. I will hopefully have her run her fingers through her hands, or some type of pose with her hands on her hips. No props will be needed, and the frame should be more vertical.

This blog post will be more informative with more description on the magazine cover. Our title Off The Rack will be in small letters on top and the symbol OTR will be in big letters in the top left corner. There might be a pug in the top right corner. The main person of the magazine will be mostly center but maybe a little over to the right if necessary. I would like them to be posing either with their hand through the hair or with arms spread wide of a view. I will have descriptions with buzz words along the left side and some on the right. The person in the middle should look a little sassy or controlling because in a big bold font will be the words "Sassy Summer Time" somewhere on the magazine. There should be some description of what will be in the magazine relating to teens near the bottom. Some subtitles in the magazine can be trending clothes, getting ready for fall and bathing suits. Our slogan will be "Explore your true style" and it will go across the middle near the bottom in a catchy font.

Now I have to start thinking about what I am going to be putting in my own magazine for the cover page. Obviously I want to have a person in the middle of the page, and I either want that person to be in front of the water, on the dock, or maybe in front of some rocks on the beach. Due to this being a summer magazine, my location has to somewhat have a beach-like theme. Our title, "Off The Rack" will be put on the top of the magazine and might somehow connect to the main person. I also have three different people in mind to take pictures of, and I plan on taking these pictures this weekend.

Now that I have looked through many different magazines I now know the different types of brands I should be looking at to help me make my magazine. Some of these brands are Bazaar, Teen Vogue, Fashion and GQ Style. I have been getting a lot of good ideas and thoughts that i could use in my own magazine from looking at these.

Looking at other popular fashion magazines

 After looking through many different teen fashion magazines, I can see that most of them are all different. Luckily, looking through the teen fashion magazines for the summer, I can see that they have a lot of similarities that I can most likely bring over to my own magazine. Some of these ideas I can bring over are summer buzz words, and a lot of stuff to do with the beach. I also saw from the examples that most of the cover pages had a water or beach back round, and usually the person who is the main focus was wearing a bathing suit. Also a lot of them have to do with being out of school for teens, which maybe i could bring into my magazine.