Preliminary Feature Writing Practice

 Someone called 18 people in the city last night. The caller identified himself as the president of Rutherford Ford, Inc., 2780 Doss Boulevard. He told each of the people that they had just won a new car from his dealership. Interviewed by reporters today, most of the people who received the calls said that at first they just couldn't believe it. And they were right. They couldn't. The person who called was a prankster, and Allen Rutherford, president of the dealership, says he has no idea who placed the calls, and that he's spending all his time today trying to explain the situation to those 18 people. "Someone apparently has a sick idea of humor," Rutherford said. After convincing people they had won a new car, the caller asked them to drop by the dealership this morning to pick it up. All 18 were there when the dealership opened its doors at 9 a.m. "I told them we never offered to give away a car," Rutherford said. "One woman told me she couldn't believe she'd won, and then she told me she couldn't believe it when I told her she hadn't. Two other women began to cry, and a man is threatening to sue me."

Bright and early in the morning 18 people stand in front of the car dealership awaiting their free car. The president of Rutherford Ford Inc., Allen Rutherford arrived that morning in confusion and has been trying to understand and explain the situation to these 18 individuals who received a mysterious call saying that they won a free car. Many people in tears and others in frustration as one man tried to sue the dealership. All of this work and confusion was from one unknown caller, a prankster. "Someone apparently has a sick idea of humor," Rutherford said. 

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Interview #1

Model: Jonathon 

 Interview Questions: 

1. Many males would not consider themselves a feminist and yet you do why is do you consider yourself a feminist? 

- "I am a proud feminist because I see how hard my mom and sister work and how much things are harder for them especially being a woman of color." 

2. Did you grow up with two parents? 

- "No, my father left when I was little, so my mom and older sister practically raised me. Guess you can say two women raised me." 

3. What is your perspective on women on the internet?

- Women are so sexualized and are seen as sex objects, which discourages me because some of my guy friends have said some nasty things about women so I try to steer away from that." 

4. What do you hope in the future for mankind? 

-" I hope that men can be real men and fight for equal rights." 

5. One thing you hope and wish men can learn from you? 

- " I am a proud feminist and support and treat all women equally and with respect. Like a true man would." 

Preliminary Task: Table of Contents

 

For the table of contents page, I used a template from Canva called Orange photos of Mongolian people to travel magazine. 

While I was creating the table of contents page I looked for some equality magazines for some cover story ideas. I eventually settled on a few and came up with catchy names for the feature stories. This is what I have right now but my contents page might very well change because I do not like the main picture that is used here. 

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/