Lucas’ Foundation Portfolio

I decided to spend some time on editing the blog itself, and how it looks in general. Although this isnt extremely important I found it was something that could benefit my project overall. I also found my main model for the my magazine. He is a 45 year old male with grey facial hair which is perfect because that it roughly the age group I am targeting. The picture for the cover image will be shot at my fathers office, where he will be wearing appropriate attire for the magazine genre which will most likely be a sort of suit or tux. In regards to my double-page spread I am not exactly sure if I will be using the same model or if I will use a different person and a different attire, but I will definitely be taking the pictures in a different setting from the cover image.

Although I have not began to shoot, I began to play around with different magazine creation websites like joomag and canva. As I began to test different fonts and layouts I found that canva is actually a lot more simpler and user friendly. As I had already decided on a more sharp, clean font to represent masculinity and luxury for my cover title, I already knew what I was looking for. I came across a particular font which caught my attention immediately, the font is called "Oswald". This font is sharp and is clean. I was also debating between two layouts for my double-page spread, one included 3 text columns while the other was one column and two text boxes. I decided to wait until I finished shooting to finalize my decision for the double-page spread as the images will more than likely play a key roll in the double-page spread.

Over the past few days I've been struggling a lot to come up with an idea for my double-page spread. I have looked at other magazines and tried to research but have not been conclusive with my decision for the double page spread. On Thursday in class there was a feedback session, where 4 other students and I sat down and gave each other suggestions and idea for our project. I brought up my struggle with my double-page spread, and the group I was working with began giving me ideas like a trending clothing, or a special new item of clothing, like a sports tux or a certain type of cloth used. Although I liked the idea of doing something trending, I feel like in terms of high end fashion, the trend remains the same for the majority of the part, which is why I think I will be doing the release of a unique item, although I tend to change my mind a lot.

For the work on my magazine I decided to use canva.com as my website for magazine production because I went through it and I seem to really understand the tools the website provides. As I began to look through through the fonts for the title of my magazine, I looked up multiple Men’s high-fashion magazines like Vogue, Numeró, and QC, and noticed that they’re all displayed in a large, but simple font, that’s most of the time very sharp. I decided that I would apply this to my magazine as I want everything in my magazine to satisfy my genre’s target audience.      Many of the more “serious” magazine examples that I was looking it at used a lot of different image filters like black and white, and other darker filters on the cover image. I decided that I should apply the same thing to my magazine, as I want it too look more mature and high-end. With this said I began to think about a magazine title but I have not been able to come up with anything. I want something short bu...

I just got home and as soon as I opened my computer I was looking over some research that I didn't get to look at before and found a website  that talks about the consumer data, like age and gender, for a few magazines. I found this extremely interesting because many of the magazines on that website are within luxury/high-end fashion. For example Robb Reports magazine  has a more senior and masculine audience that consists of 80% males above 45 years old and the digital version has around 50% women at an average of 35 years old. Now that I have specific data to match specific magazines that are the same genre as mine, I can begin to construct the magazine cover.     Now with what I found, I can begin to shoot pictures for the cover of my magazine. I decided that i'm going to focus mainly on men's fashion therefor my cover page model will be male. I have a few models for my magazine that I have in mind, and i'd like to shoot all of them just in case I like one more ...

       As I began to move forward with the production of my magazine, I felt like I was about to put myself into an extremely difficult task because if I was going to do Latin American Music, it would be extremely difficult to make my magazine completely unique, especially the pictures as I was not going to be able to get any famous Latin American artists and that was the main focus of Latin American music magazines. Following this I quickly began researching into luxury/high-end fashion magazines. I found a quick interest in this and began my research. Here are some of the magazines that i'd like to base my magazine cover image on:       I found that many of these magazines do indeed use celebrities for the cover images of their magazines, but I decided that if I used the appropriate aged male, and the right outfit, I could pull of an excellent cover magazine which would focus on what really matters, the fashion item. With this said I will quick...

As I was looking into other Latin American music magazines, while researching I found that Latin music magazines are usually very colorful, making it extremely eye catching and appealing to the eye. This benefits the magazine in more than one way; due to its colors it could attract someone who is more interested in another genre.  I took this into account and decided that I’m going to focus on finding a good group of colors that blend well together to catch the attention of the public.      While researching I also saw that it said that for this particular genre, popular artists were normally on the cover page to draw attention. I wasn’t exactly happy to hear this, as I wanted to incorporate unique pictures, taken by me. I thought about what I could do and I decided that I wanted to be the model for all of the different pictures within my magazine, while incorporating hair and dressing style of the artists, almost like an impersonation. I felt like this w...