Project Proposal

Integrating Activity Project Proposal:

Rep Magazine (Working title)

Being an avid men’s magazine reader and a news/ pop culture junkie, it was an easy decision for me to chose a magazine as my I.A project. My magazine, which is targeted to men ages 18-35, will cover a variety of interesting and topical subjects. These subjects include Movies (Rumors, business, reviews), Music (Artists in production, who’s on tour, what’s hot), Interviews (Celebrities, Politicians, Athletes etc.), Clothes, Gadgets (cars, technology etc.), World News (Interesting stories from around the world), Travel (Monthly article about a different place), Sports and more. The magazine’s style is based off Maxim’s informal, fun and easy to flip through format.

Though the work ahead of me is a tad intimidating, I am very excited for this project. The writing of articles, reviews, and interviews in this magazine will call upon my skills acquired in my Dawson English classes. I will use the structural tools of story boarding I learned in Scriptwriting to plan my approach to the project. Scriptwriting will also be useful to harness and direct my creativity and structure for when I create my own advertisements. When it comes to producing my advertisements I will use the photography and placement skills I’ve learned in my productions class when taking the photos for my ads. I will use Adobe Photoshop when I begin to work on my ads, a program that I became very familiar with in my Contemporary Media Arts class. When it comes to creating the pages for my articles and formatting them I think I will have to learn how to use Adobe Illustrator, I will look into that.

Because I plan on pursuing a career in the communications industry, this magazine will be a really interesting and educational experience for me. It is a way for me to use my knowledge of pop culture on all fronts and turn it into something beneficial for once. This magazine will be really good for me because it will give me experience producing a product that is a perfect example of communications. It will also give look very good on my portfolio. I believe that my knowledge of men’s magazines and awareness of what is going on in the world (the topics that my magazine will cover) will enable me to create an original, informative, and entertaining magazine that people will want to read.

 

Schedule:

October 10: Have all ads, articles, reviews, interviews and coverpage planned out. Start scheduling in actors for ads.

October 17: Begin taking pictures for all the original ads. Begin writing articles, reviews and interviews.

October 31: Begin photo shopping the ads, and placing the articles on pages.

Two weeks before submission: Give in magazine to the place that produces magazines.

December 5: Hand in magazine.

Required Materials:

To create my project I will require good quality camera to take pictures for the ads, as well as certain props featured in the ads. I will use programs like Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator and Microsoft Word. I will also require a commercial magazine production place.