AICE Media Studies Blog

Photoworks: On their website there is a popup ad to join their mailing list. They also showcase their issues so that people can click on them and see the type of photography they use. They also advertise their Instagram page, also people can listen to panel. They distribute their magazine every autumn so once a year. Their magazine is rather large and it showcases many different photographers, from well know people to people just getting started in the business.

Better Photography: when i clicked on the website there were ads about getting the new issue. Also there were details about how much it costs to subscribe to the magazine company. There is a difference in prices for online readers and paper readers. I thought that was interesting. Their target audience and my target are the same because they are both focus on photography. On their website they also give a preview of their issue so if the reader likes the portion they read they will be more likely to subscribe to the magazine company. When people subscribe to their magazine they will get updates on new issues coming up and things like that.

The target audience for my magazine are professional photographers and/or people aspiring to be a photographer. The gender could be male or female because photography is a gender neutral profession. The magazine would mainly focus on photographers in college and out of college looking for their passion. For my magazine i would advertise digitally like on Instagram and different social media sights. National Geographic: They advertise by having social media accounts, such as Twitter and Instagram. Also when you go on their website they advertise their newest issue. Another way they advertise is when you get your issue there are papers inside about how to order the next issue. Probably when you sign up they will send emails that advertise new issues and things like that.

Over the weekend i will taking photos downtown. I have some locations in mind. On Friday and Saturday i will be taking the photos then on Sunday and Monday i will editing the photos and fit them on the table of contents. Also i will probably be taking photos of the Ringling Bridge. Also during this week i will fixing the fonts and layout of my article pages.

Some of the feedback i got was that i should vary my photos. To fix that this week i will schedule another photo shoot so that i can get some more variety photos. Some good feedback i got was that i used a good font. While i do the revisions of my magazine i will have to come up with a new name because Polaroid could be copyrighted and i do not want that. I did get a lot of good feedback about the photos i took. As i revise my magazine i will keep all of the feedback i got in mind to make the best photography magazine i can make. Another revision i will make is when i edit my photos to fit the pages i won't stretch them out so much.

I chose it put my photos for my main article on the bottom so i could give myself more room to write information about questions i asked Matthew. On the table of contents i decided to put more than one picture on the page because i interviewed more than one person and if i developed more of my magazine they would have articles of their own. I wanted to experiment with different fonts so i found different fonts for my table of contents and my main article. For the pictures for my main article i took one picture with plain lighting then another picture with studio lighting. Since my article was about studio lighting and i wanted to show people the difference between regular lighting and studio lighting. I put the page numbers on the bottom of the pages because that's what i saw in the magazine's i researched and i thought it was a good idea. Since i put the page numbers on top of the photos for the main article i made the font for the numbers a little bigger and changed the color...