mid term submission

The reason I chose all these photos was because I believed that they were the best photos that I took during this photo shoot. I tried to keep all the layouts very simple with just 1 or 2 pictures on each page. for my main two articles I did a little blerp on why people should make it and the ingredients and directions. For my table of contents I put 7 different pages and 1 photo. For my cover page I used 1 photo to cover the whole page and used white writing for the font to show up. I used the same font for the titles of all the pages and for the other writing I used times new roman.

Schedule photo shoot

During our photo shoot we plan on taking photos of different steps of making all the food. We possibly will take photos of us in the store buying the ingredients but I'm not sure we will have room on our page for those photos. We both agreed on having the photo shoot at my house because I have a larger kitchen. We decided on a date and a time for our photo shoot and we aren't sure if we can get all of the food made in on day but we are going to try.

Schedule Interviews and develop question

For my magazine I chose to interview my mother, she is the one who mainly cooks all of our holiday meals. My mom shops, prepares, cooks and serves she does it all. I interviewed her after thanksgiving so that I could leave her alone to cook. I asked my mom 4 questions, what her favorite dish to make is, how long it takes her to prepare for thanksgiving, how many people she cooks for, and what her least favorite dish to make is. I think the answers will be important for my readers because some people don't always cook for a lot of people and some cook for way more that what my mom cooks for. It's also important to see how long takes her to prepare everything.

Flat Plan

My flat plan has 90 pages, there is a variety of food items in my magazine. In my magazine there is different ways to cook the same food for example, I have a bacon covered turkey and a beer fried turkey. I used a variety of food and deserts that aren't always common in the hopes to engage my readers to see that my magazine can be for anyone. There is about a 50/50 split with advertisement and actual articles. If I were to plan the advertisement I would make them close to the ones I saw in previous magazine I researched, I would have cooking appliances, different ingredients and traveling opportunities.

Table of Contents

I decided to take advantage of how much room there is on the table of contents and keep it simple. Not too much information crammed on to the page, but enough for the reader to know what's in the magazine. I have pinned out 6 different articles to show and I plan on using 1 or 2 photos. Personally a crammed page with a lot going on can be very overwhelming and doesn't look very professional. The reason I chose these articles to show is because they are spread out throughout the entire magazine and not just the 3 articles I am actually creating. With this it is my intention to get the reader engaged in the magazine to see there is a variety of different food. I plan on having at least 2 pictures on all the articles and then making small paragraph about what is being made and then the directions on how to make it. I am keeping it simple  by having the fonts all the same for the article title and pages as font Times New Roman and the Table of Contents font as Bodoni MT Black.

Cover Template

For the cover of the magazine we chose to make the title M&D because my name starts with a M and my partners name starts with a D. We included the word holiday into it because we're talking about the holiday time. My cover says the Thanksgiving issue because all my articles involve Thanksgiving food. The fonts we chose aren't final, were waiting till we have the pictures for our cover page but, for the time being our company name and the articles within the magazine are in the font Bodoni MT Black because it was a simple but different font. The words Thanksgiving Issue are in the font Elephant and its in the middle of the magazine. The title is in very large print at the top of the magazine. The articles within the magazine are on the right hand lower side in a smaller size font so they don't take up to much space but still shown.