Mid-term Submission

TOC Template

I chose the pages because I felt those would draw the most attention. I wanted to put only two pictures so that it may capture the readers attention but not bun-bard them and distract them from the articles in the magazine. I went with the school colors and had the numbers yellow so that there wasnt too much orange in the Table of contents.

Photo Shoot

The photo shoot went better than I thought it would go. I got a lot of clear shots of the field. For a first time shooting these type of photos i learned a lot about how to take the photos and when to take them. These are some of the better photos of the photo shoot. 

Setting Up Photo Shoot

I plan on going to a boys Varsity soccer game against a District team because the Intensity should be higher and I believe I could get better pictures that way. I didn't want to drive all the way to another school so for convenience, I waited for a home game. I chose to go to Sarasota High School vs Manatee High School game because Sarasota was projected to win that district game.  I plan on taking some action shots, over the shoulder shots, wide shots, and mid shots if possible at the game.

Scouting Locations

I scouted a lot of the winter sport locations to decide where I could get not only the best pictures but the best story as well. Basketball was first a thought but I don't know basketball that well and the days the games were hosted on didn't work with my schedule. Wrestling was another but I couldn't make it to any of the meets due to work and family obligations. I was able to make it to soccer games and because I was on the soccer team I was able to get up on the field to take pictures that no other sport allowed me to do. I also was able to get better interviews from the soccer players because they knew me and felt more comfortable giving interview responses than other sport athletes.

Cover Template

My group and I chose to do our magazine unique to our school so we decided our pages would have a lot of our school colors(orange,black, and white). We noticed that ESPN Magazine never over complicated the ads on the front, there is usually about three and we replicated that. We also notived that the fonts were big to catch the attention of the audience so I made my numbers big so the audience would want to know what the numbers represent. Sports Illustrated, Soccer Bible, ESPN Magazine, and surfer magazine all usually had a quick, two word, statement that would make you want to read a story inside the magazine so i added "Starts today" with a sub-text saying "season starts now".

Flat Plan

In my sports magazine flat plan my group and I decided that we would split the magazines into seasons. Because our high school has three seasons (fall, winter, and spring) we added a fourth that would be released at the end of summer to give an idea of what is to come in the sports news. I chose to do the Winter issue because i was more familiar with it because I played soccer and the sports interested me more this time of the year. My group decided we would have a similar ending to every magazine covering the big events called "Extra points". I split the magazine up by the sports and gave every sport in winter its own section.