CCR Draft #1

1. How does your product use or challenge conventions and how does it represent social groups or issues?

My product uses the conventions of multiple successful sports magazines. As a group we looked to model ESPN magazine and Sports Illustrated magazine due to the popularity of the two. Our magazines all incorporated a cover shot of people playing the sport that was ideal to the magazine. The name of the magazine "Sailor Seasonal" was bold and at the top like Sports illustrated and ESPN magazine do. Our colors of the magazine are mainly orange and black because our school colors would appeal to the audience we are trying to attract. We found that since sports magazines are known to be bought and sold to more men, the setup was more bold to attract attention of the male audience. We also found symmetry was appealing to look at and was incorporated within our table of contents. The magazines issues were separated by seasons/quarterly to adhere to the the sports theme and audience. We separated the issues into Fall, Winter, Spring, and Summer season to give us enough time to fill the magazine with content. Like other sports magazines we tried to incorporate multiple shots from different angles.