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March 16, 2026 Now it is starting to get real. We have been doing a lot of research and for the purpose of developing my magazine further, I'll be creating a sketch of how my magazine cover will look like. Though I am not the best at drawing, I'm fairly content with how my sketch turned out. I'm not fully convinced on the colors I used, but I can still take inspiration from it. Here is a picture of my sketch: Masthead: As discussed in previous blog posts, my masthead is "Ell

February 19, 2026 Representation is about how people and lifestyles are shown in media. It influences how we see ourselves and how others understand us. For a teenage working girl like me, representation is important because it shapes expectations about my responsibility and education. When media accurately reflects teenage girls who balances school and work with their social life. The media plays a major role in shaping how society views young women like myself, and that is

February 18, 2026 The Bad Bunny half time show was filled with little easter bunnies of different ways to show representation for cultures, genders, and sexualities. The biggest one being inclusion of many cultures and countries. He brought out many flags and stated several names trying to unify all and give them some credit to make people feel seen no matter where they come from. A big thing with Bad Bunny in general is to not forget where you came from. We can see many ref

February 11, 2026 This is the best project, in terms of my enjoyment in the process of creating it, that I've ever had. This says a lot considering I am a Junior in High-school. First my teacher explained what Foley is. Foley is the art of adding the sounds to a clip after it it filmed. We watched several videos of examples and even played a game. The game consisted of a sound playing with no visual, and we had to guess what the sound is meant to imitate. This showed us the

February 4, 2026 In this blog I will be analyzing one scene from a very popular show in my generation: "The Summer I turned Pretty". Instead of doing a slight analysis on three different scenes, I think it will serve me to analyze just one in depth. Mise-en-Scene is very important in the film and theater industry therefore it is important for me to understand it well. In this scene, Conrad confesses he still has feelings for Belly, right after her bachelorette party. She i

February 1, 2026 For this blog, I am including a documentary that I created with a group. When planning and creating it, we took inspiration from All the Empty Rooms on Netflix. We liked the way it told a story through visuals, pacing, and emotion, and we tried to bring some of that into our own project. This documentary allowed us to work together, share ideas, and experiment with a more serious and meaningful style of media. Overall, creating this documentary was a valuab

January 10, 2026 For my preliminary task, I created a YouTube Poop video to practice basic editing skills. The goal of this task was not to make something perfect, but to experiment with cutting clips, adding effects, and understanding timing. A YouTube Poop style made this easier because it’s meant to be chaotic, funny, and creative, which gave me more freedom to try different ideas without worrying too much about it being serious. Overall, this preliminary task helped m

October 14, 2025 Now it's time to get serious. Today I did a photoshoot a photoshoot of one of my top two genres. I decided to do fashion first because I like to save the best for last, and to be honest, I didn't expect to enjoy this. It turned out to be a fun experience. Before the shoot, I was planning on going to the park to take the pictures and using a professional camera. I couldn't make either of those things happen, but I did manage to use two of my family members as

October 4, 2025 Now it's time to analyze the little details in my top two genre choices for my magazine, which are "Cooking Food, and Beverages" and "Fashion and Design". In my last post, I analyzed the overall concept of genre covers and what their focus is. In this post, I will be looking closely at, not only, the codes and conventions, but also the graphic elements of an example cover of my liking for each of my top two choices. I'm hoping that after this post, I will have

September 25, 2025 Picking the genre for my magazine will likely be the hardest part of creating my magazine, as I am indecisive. The purpose of this blog is to facilitate the picking process. In this post, I will be choosing 4 genres and researching them. While researching, I will keep in mind the pros and cons of each. I've narrowed down the 4 genres to: Cooking Food & Beverage, Fashion & Style, Teen, and Home & Garden. Cooking Food & Beverage The aspect I find most intrig