SAMPLE INTERVIEW

 

Hey blog!

In todays blog I’m going to show the response from my questions. I interviewed a girl from my class and I learned some pretty interesting things to write my sample story. So here are the responses:

1. What is one hobby you think others aren’t interested in?

Being in band, a lot of people find it nerdy. There’s a stereotype that band kids are really smart. And that they all know each other really well when some don’t talk or are very quiet.

2. Why do you think the things a person likes makes them unique?

I think each person has a certain thing they like whether is soccer or art. And I think it’s also very interesting to see two people with different interest talk to each other and explain them to each other. 

3. Who is someone in your life that you look up to?

My mom, because she tried really hard during my childhood to get me things that I wanted. Because we had low income but now seeing how he was with me and how she is now with my brother, makes me inspired. 

4. How do you think being from a certain country affects one’s views on their day to day life?

It depends on how you experienced in a different country. For example one of my friends, Ameisha, she comes from an island close to Europe. She says there’s a lot of more chaos in the U.S, and more people and a lot of drama then in her country.

5. Where did you grow up, do you believe this affects who you are today?

Yeah, I don’t remember much past seven years. Basically, there was a lot of problems with my parents. And I grew up with my mom and grandma. It made me more on top of my work. And when we moved out I wasn’t as on top of myself. I feel like my grandma helped me with that. 

6. When do you believe you grew out of your childhood mentality?

Probably during Covid, having to stay in one place for a good amount of time. It made me think of friendships and the situation I was in. It showed me who was real and who was not.

7. Where you’re from is there a certain place that brings you  comfort?

In from Hialeah, the one place that kind of comforting for me is the Checker’s down the street, me and my friends go there and talk about our problems or about anything. One of my friends works there so I also like to bother him.

8. What are some of your favorite childhood memories?

There is this one time when I was six I was taken to my first Disney in ice and we were watching Rapunzel skating. Then after the show I walked out with a big smile on my face. It made me really happy. 

9. When was the last time a movie/tv show stuck with you that you still think about?

Five feet apart that movie actually inspired me in a way. It is incredibly sad because they can’t be with each other because they share the same illness. And although they can’t be with each other they find way around it. 

10. Who is someone that you can never get bored of?

My boy best friend he’s one of those people that like could pull anything out of you. He’s incredibly extroverted and outgoing. He doesn’t care what people say about him. His motto literally is “It is what it is”. Ben thought he has a lot of struggles as well as I do. I fell like I could talk to him. That’s why I can never get bored of him.

Thanks for reading the blog, in the next blog I’ll show what I wrote for my story. 

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SAMPLE INTERVIEW QUESTIONS

 

Welcome back to the blog!

So for today I’m going to show some questions I wrote in order to be prepared to write a proper article for my magazine. I will be interviewing my classmate Alexis Gamboa. Then I will write a story so I can put to work some skills I learned in class. 

The questions are as followed: 

1. What is one hobby you think others aren’t interested in?

2. Why do you think the things a person likes makes them unique?

3. Who is someone in your life that you look up to?

4. How do you think being from a certain country affects one’s views on their day to day life?

5. Where did you grow up, do you believe this affects who you are today?

6. When do you believe you grew out of your childhood mentality?

7. Where your from is there a certain place that brings you  comfort?

8. What are some of your favorite childhood memories?

9. When was the last time a movie/tv show stuck with you that you still think about?

10. Who is someone that you can never get bored of?

That’s all for today, see you in the next blog where I’ll show the responses to each question. 

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WRITING LEADS PT3

 

Hello again!

This blog would talk about a third different type of lead for articles.

Title of lead:

Startling statement

Definition: 

A startling statement creates drama. It startles readers as they didn’t expect to read something as shocking as this sentence. It makes the reader confused but also makes them entertained to want to read more.

The Factsheet Paragraph: 
There is a trend in dogs. People no longer like full-sized dogs. Big dogs--those over 40 pounds, especially5-year-old-and-up dogs-are about as much in demand these days as big cars. "About the only people who come in here and want to adopt a big dog are businesses or crime victims-after something has happened to them," says the Humane Society's director, Rika Brill. Even then, people tend to tire of the animal and return it to the shelter once their fear abates. Full-sized dogs, like Great Danes, Saint Bernards, Russian wolfhounds and German shepherds, are being unloaded for some of the same reasons: cost and space. The cost of owning a big dog averages about $500 a year-just for the bare essentials. Also, more and more apartment complexes are banning or restricting pets. Most limit the size of pets to no more than 15 or 20 pounds, and charge a refundable damage deposit-in many cases, several hundred dollars. Some charge a $250 non-refundable pet fee. Other apartment complexes charge a monthly fee of $10 to $20. So fewer people are willing to adopt a big dog. Also, people are turning big dogs in to the shelter at an alarming rate. Each year, the county's Humane Society takes in more than 20,000 homeless animals. Only 27 percent are adopted. Of the 27 percent fortunate enough to find new homes, fewer and fewer are large dogs. Which means they constitute the majority of the nearly 200 dogs and cats put to sleep each week at the Humane Society. 

Created lead:  

It’s not their fault they were born this way.

that's all for today, thank you for reading!

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WRITING LEADS PT2

 

Welcome back, Blog!

In this blog I'm going to talk about another type of lead that could help me improve my writing.

Title of lead:

Twist

Definition: 

A Twist sets a reader for one mood and then this is changed. It's meant to surprise the reader. This leads them astray and they don't know what to expect.

The Factsheet Paragraph:

“An armored truck was traveling down Orange Avenue during this morning's rush hour. The truck hit a particularly bad pothole, and the backdoor of the vehicle flew open. The truck contained approximately $20,000 in change the city had collected from is parking meters. The money fell to the pavement.Several bags burst open. Police halted traffic. City workers summoned to the scene used brooms to sweep up the coins, then shoveled them back into the truck. But, before the police and other city employees arrived at the scene, dozens of other motorists and bystanders stopped at the scene. Some offered to help. When city officials later counted the money retrieved by the workers, they found they had exactly $18,482.17. The remainder seems to have been stolen.”

Created lead:  

Citizens of Orange Avenue got a surprise when coins were raining, but it wasn’t from the sky.

That's all for todays blog, on the next I'll talk about another interesting type of lead!

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WRITING LEADS PT1

 

Welcome back to the blog!

In todays class we learned about different leads so now I'm going to practice how to write some. This is going to help me write an interesting article for my magazine.

Title of lead: 

Direct quote

Definition: 

Direct quote leads are when the words of someone else are used anywhere in the text. But they must be put in quotation marks as the reader doesn't know who said these words. Additionally, not adding these symbols can be seen as plagiarism. These quotes should be followed with the name of who said it to clarify to the reader why this quote is important to be added. Phrases like “He said” or “She stated” are commonly used to do this. 

The Factsheet Paragraph:

The police in this municipality received a call at 3:45 p.m. yesterday afternoon. A woman shouted at the sergeant who answered the telephone. She said: "My son's been beaten. His teacher whipped him this afternoon, and he's all red where she paddled him. Can teachers do that? That's assault and battery, and I want her arrested." Two police officers were sent to the home. They questioned the boy, who is 9 years old. At his mother's insistence, the police officers also inspected the boy's reported injuries. They reported: "We couldn't tell that the boy had been paddled. His fanny didn't look red to us, but we did notice that his pants legs were wet and muddy. As we talked, it became obvious that the boy was lying. He finally admitted that he had stopped to play on the way home from school, forgot the time and got home late. He told his mother that the teacher had spanked him and kept him after school. His mother was there with us and heard the whole story. She said she'd take off the situation, and we're quite certain that she will, as she was very embarrassed. In fact, we could hear her giving the kid a real paddling as we left—and a hard one."

Created lead:  

      “My son’s been beaten.”

Shouts a concerned Mother on the phone. A police officer on the other side listens to the mother as she is sharing her frustration on the matter.

     “His teacher whipped him this afternoon, and he's all red where she paddled him.” The Mother says as she is getting more angry and frustrated. She continues, “Can teachers do that? That's assault and battery, and I want her arrested.”

Thanks for reading the blog, see you in the next!

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PRODUCTION TIMELINE

 

Greetings blog!

For today’s blog I will be showing you what I’m going to be doing in the month of February to do the magazine. I think the days I choose are good and far apart enough that gives me enough time to get everything done. The final magazine should be done by the twenty nine of February. 

Thanks for reading the blog, see you in the next!

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MOOD BOARD

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Welcome back in todays blog im going to show you my mood board for my magazine. These is sort of what the magazine is about at first glance. Some of the images require further explanation but others are pretty to understand. Although this pictures do not match my color scheme is the best fit to what I wanted the picture to be like. So of course when I edit them and take the pictures they are going to fit to my standards for the magazine. So with this I hope to catch attention and make the magazine interesting for readers.

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MIND MAP

 

Greetings blog!

      Hi, today I will show the mind map I have created. This is a little summary of what I want for my magazine. My topic is fashion and I will be writing about makeup and skincare. In the mind map I talk about group dynamics, target audience, purpose, inspiration, genre and color scheme. This is a general idea about what my magazine is about. But as I go I will be doing different blogs to show my process. 

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RESEARCHING MAGAZINE PHOTOS

 

Hi blog, welcome back!

      Now that soon I’m going to start making  my magazine I think it’s best if I had an idea of what it should look like. So I’m going to choose pictures that best my match what I want in each part of the magazine. I will also be explaining why I think the images would fit into my magazine.

Cover:

     So for cover the I wanted to go for a theme of bubbles all throughout the magazine. To me these bubbles represents reflection, which is how one perceives themselves rather than what others think. I wanted to represent your own self not someone else. So for the cover my featured person would be blowing blows which ties in with the table of contents.

Table of contents:

    Since I’m going with the theme of bubbles. The numbers of each topic will be inside a bubble and the important or “star” articles will have a bubble in the shape of a star. I want there to be multiple other original pictures that coincide with the theme of the article.  

Double page spread:

    Now for the double page spread the main picture will be my featured person in front of a mirror. So in this mirror is where the writing will be, to me this means that she reflects what the article is. The article is about my featured person, her experience with makeup and skincare and how it reflects who she is. So this image will bleed on the next page but it will fade so that there could be writing. On the other side the article would be in the middle and around it would be different images. Like the images above are some inspiration of what they could be about.  The captions of the images will be bubbles to make the theme of bubbles be visible in all pages.

I hope this helped understand what my magazine pictures will be about. Thank you, see you in the next blog!

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SURVEY RESPONSE

 

Hey blog!

      Today I wanted to go over the responses for the survey. My survey had thirty responses. So I’m going to go over questions I think are important for the magazine. 

      

     So a main question was about the topics that they would like to see in a magazine. There were three that a lot of people liked. The article name with the tittle “The makeup  & skincare of an expert” was one that people really liked. The other was “Find a style based on your personality”. And the third was “10 steps to create the perfect outfit”.

      

     For the tittle of the magazines 57.6% percent chose the tittle Eterna. In one of my previous blog I had explained it means timeless. I think this is a good choice for a tittle as it is short and simple. I believe long times bore audience so this is a good pick.

     So for this question out group wanted to know which font would fit best for the tittle. Since we have to do different issues of our magazine we were hoping for an eye catching font. And 75.8% choose the font “London”. How the font looks like is to the right of the data picture. 

       One of the questions asked for colors that they would prefer to see. Between the four choices roughly 48.5% choose pastels. So for the magazine I would have to use those tones. I don’t think it would be that hard as any color can be used for fashion.

     For this question I wanted to know if one image or multiple images would appeal to a reader. Mostly everyone choose one main image with 84.8%. I think it’s better to have one image as this is more captivating than multiple images. Having multiple images confuses the viewers.

      A really important part of a magazine is the cover. This sets the mood for the whole magazine. Readers are suppose to be captivated by the image and how it looks. So for this I put in the survey different magazines to see. 36.4% choose the vogue cover (the picture in the right). I’m one of my previous blogs I showed the other choices. But the vogue one was the most popular. But Elle magazine was a close second with 27.3%.

That’s all for today next I’m going to go in depth of what I want my magazine to look like!

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INSIDE THE SURVEY PT2

 

Hi again!

   Like in the previous blog I wanted to give more insight on what is inside the survey. I also wanted to explain my groups and I's  reasoning behind selecting some of the options.

      This question is for anyone taking the survey to choose a topic they would like to see on a magazines. So for this topics I wanted to make them interesting. Something that would be both visual and textually appealing to a reader. Since this is  a fashion magazine all the topics are based around that. The first is about how the person I interview for my magazine does their makeup. The second is about fashion trends that are good and bad. For this one I wanted to see what people think of the trends and if they are important enough to stay. Basically what this tittles are trying to talk about is fashion. Since my groups and Is magazines is about fashion we tried to stay on topic.

     For this question I wanted to ask people answering the survey what they imagine a magazine to look like. Since we are looking for feedback on what they think should be on my magazine it’s important to ask which house style is more appealing to them. So we picked magazines that we thought were fairly different. For example Vogue makes the person stand out in a solid color background and by being on top of the tittle. In Elle the women stands out but also the tittle because they are both wearing dark colors while the background in gray making them stand out. In cosmopolitan there isn’t writing making this specially known that it’s about the people in the photo. GC also has a gray background but there is a lot of writing along the outside of the person in the photo making both stand out. 

That’s all for todays blog, hope to see you in the next!

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INSIDE THE SURVEY PT1

 Hi blog!

    For today I wanted to talk about some of the questions that I put inside the survey. I also wanted to explain my thought process as to why I choose them for the survey. 

      For starters I want to say that me and my group all participated in something contributing to the magazine. We all collectively thought of how we wanted our magazine to look like and proceeded to choose at least four options. So let’s talk about the magazine tittle. I was the one to think of the names and choose how the title should be designed. And my group had to either agree or disagree with the names. 

    

    I played around with different languages and wording. I wanted our tittle to be different,  to be original. By using a different language it makes it more interesting and more captivating. For the first choice I thought of “timeless fashion”, I thought that fashion has been around for decades and implementing that into our magazine would make it stand out. But I also wanted our title to be one word but “timeless fashion” was still an option. So I thought we should shorten it and thought “Timeless” could do the trick. But I still don’t really agree with it but it’s up for our audience to choose if they like it or not. Now for “Eterna” I thought it was very creative to use a different language and we all came up with different languages we could use and we settled in Spanish and Italian since they are very similar languages. “Eterna” means timeless in Spanish. Since I thought “Timeless” sounded too serious maybe in Spanish it would make it more fun for the reader. 

    Then I thought about “Visionary” it sounds inspiring and that’s what we want. We want our magazine to be inspired, relatable and authentic. I thought using one word for the title it’s not as heavy to have in the cover. I feel like it would be easier to get our point across with one word. And it certainly makes it easier for readers to think of the magazine if it’s just one word. Then I thought of “Uprising”. My group liked this option but they felt like it might be missing something so I decided to translate to another language. We translated the word into French, Spanish, Latin and Portuguese but we settled in using Italian. “Rivolta”, we thought that this sounded better out of all the other languages and it was one word. Although we aren’t total fans of it it’s still a good option. 

     Now let’s talk about the color schemes. We wanted to have at least have 5 colors in each image to be put all throughout the magazine. So for my survey I choose which kind of tones people wanted to see. Since we are all doing different editions of the magazines we wanted all of our magazines to be somewhat similar yet show our interpretation of fashion magazines.

     Here we see four different color schemes. I can’t speak for what my partners thought process was but as for me I choose this shades because to me fashion can be any color. Fashion is whatever you want it to be. So I choose pastels, dark tones, bright colors, and neutral shades. I think there is no certainty that fashion is a specific color but rather an embodiment of all colors combined. And I wanted to show that very same idea in my magazine. I want readers to feel a sense of something unique and refreshing. I think color scheme plays a big role because it makes up the tone of the magazine and therefore the mood of the audience as they flip through the pages. Colors our important pastels can make them feel nostalgic, dark tones can make them feel passionate, bright colors can make them feel cheerful and neutral gives a sense of stability and comfort. 

That’s all for todays blog, in the next I’ll talk a little more about what is in the survey!

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SURVEY

 

Hello blog!

Before I begin creating my magazine I need ideas as to what my magazine should have.  My group and I have have decided to do a series of fashion magazines. My magazine will focus on makeup and skincare. In order to get an idea of what to put in my magazine I created a survey to aid in this process. I added about eleven questions my classmates can answer and give me their insight as to what they want to see. I hope to learn a lot from this survey in order to create a magazine that people can enjoy.

Here’s the link to the survey:

https://forms.gle/eY633NeQ5N4q568KA

Here are also my groups surveys:

1.https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfzHWGP_tRlpmg9-AqlbqHTi9GwDYYdiDGwS2xD4Si2gNBnYQ/viewform?usp=sf_link

2.https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeMaHl2veaGQWXJQ3Eu2p--YDQ8Uz18ef5cXN1JAfFWQKPIIw/viewform

3.https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScb8kAwS6IMY3AnCgBfGyn5nQaaNS7j6teDcUh8zBCZhgjQsg/viewform

That’s all for todays blog, on the next one I’ll talk more about what’s inside the survey!

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