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March 6, 2026 For this blog, I made a survey to figure out what my target audience is and what they are interested in. This will help me know what to talk about in my magazine to keep them hooked and entertained by the content. It contains 15 questions and my goal was to have more than 20 responses, in the end I got 21 responses. I attempted to send it to many people, but the results might not be completely reliable because I know a limited number of adults, which is who I su

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 11, 2026 For this blog, I'll be analyzing two different table of contents (TOC) of magazines from the same genre, Fashion. We are focusing only on the table of contents page for these magazine and analyzing them in specific detail. This will give me inspiration and a guide to look at when doing my own table of contents page. I will focus on Vogue and Elle which are very well known fashion magazines. Number of Images: 1 Description of Image: The image shows a fashion

February 10, 2026 Today, I will be researching and analyzing different fonts for my magazine masthead. I am going for an elegant, moving font. A font that adds power to my title that focuses on empowering Hispanic women. Serif fonts give the audience a sense of trust and reliability. This is not exactly what I'm aiming for but let's view some fonts and analyze them. I arranged the fonts in order from most favorite to least based on looks. My title will be tested with the font

February 9, 2026 Previously, I had decided on the title: She means business. Today we will visit the topic to demonstrate the reason why I chose that title and the process behind it. As a refresher, my magazines genre is Fashion & Style. The message or purpose behind it is to empower women, specifically Hispanic women around ages 25-50. She Means Business: Demonstrates professionalism and confidence. It would represent Hispanic women as serious leaders and entrepreneurs, es

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 28, 2026 In class, our assignment today is to analyze our top two choices of genre for our magazine. We are doing this by getting two images of covers of each genre and compare/contrast the elements. I am analyzing two Food & Beverage magazine covers and two Fashion magazine covers. I focus on cover elements like mastheads, puffs, barcodes, fonts and central images. Food & Beverage These two magazines both fall under the Food & Beverage genre. One is "Cuisine Tonight"

January 23, 2026 In today's class, we learned how every magazine is created with a specific audience kept in mind. Every image chosen, color, fonts, and headlines are meant to attract a certain type of audience. For this blog post, I will be analyzing the audience profiles of two magazines from the genre I have chosen for my portfolio, Fashion & Style. By examining their demographics and psychographics, I can better understand who the magazines are targeting. I will then crea

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

January 9, 2026 Last blog, we left off that I hadn't decided what genre I wanted to do for my magazine. I was almost sure on fashion, but I allowed myself some time to think over and decide if I'd rather do food. I truly felt enlightened the day of the photoshoot for fashion. I enjoyed every aspect of it, like choosing the outfits, the background, the pose, the camera angle, and more. I did not think of it as an assignment, more so like an experience. So, to make my decision

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