Production: Final Table of Contents

 This is the final product of my table of contents. In my last blog post about the table of contents, I said I would be changing the main picture for here and I did. The picture here matches so much more than the last one and It fits the flow of the magazine perfectly. I am so happy with the way it came out. The hardest part was the text and the colors I needed but wanted I had to put a white border around the text in order for people to read what the components are which I am not in love with but it works. 

 

Production: Final Photos

The topic I have chosen for my model magazine is a magazine for women and men who believe in gender equality. I have taken some pictures that I think could best represent this topic. 

Putting Together My Feature Spread

 

  I decided to use the picture I had edited in one of my earlier posts because I felt like it was perfect in the sense that her smile seemed genuine, unlike some of the other pictures, and her head was tilted in a nice way and her hair was perfectly placed (in some of the other pictures there are rebellious hair strands.) Overall it was a nice picture with a soft, girly touch to it. I knew I wanted the picture to be by itself on one page like I had previously seen in magazines such as Nylon but I also wanted to place a quote of hers in a big font, also by itself. Since I obviously couldn't do that I put the picture and the quote on the same page. This is where I really wanted to show off the bold color scheme that I desperately desired, so I started formatting the background of the picture/quote page.

I used white to format the background. Once I added the picture and formatted the quote everything was looking perfect to me. The quote says "Fight like a girl" which I thought fit perfectly for the magazine.

     Afterward, I started to write up my article. As I got deeper into the article, I began to run out of space to write and when I stepped back and looked at it, it just looked like a big blob of text that I'm should no one would be a thrill to read. For that reason, I split the text up into 2 columns, it fit more text and didn't look as bulky.
 Overall, I am pretty happy with my feature spread, I honestly didn't believe that it would come out as nice as it did but it did!

How Women are Viewed in the Media

 

Women, especially women of color, play roles that are hypersexualized and submissive. Many times they are shown as terrorists, unintelligent, or "the help". It wasn't until Gravity in 2013 that little girls could see a female astronaut on screen. Black women did not get their own magazine till the creation of Essence in the 70s. Media has a much bigger impact on society than we think. Acknowledging the history of media and its exclusion of women representation, I plan to make my magazine diverse and equal. I will cater my content and images to many demographics and include many perspectives on it.  

https://politicalyouthnetwork.org/womens-rights-why-are-womens-rights-important/