Midterm Submission

Photo Shoot

The wrestling coach invited me to watch a practice and take pictures during one of their practices. The first day I came he said that I can't take pictures that day because they were doing only conditioning drills, so i rescheduled for the following day and got these pictures.

Schedule interviews and Develop questions

The most important interview I have is with the wrestling coach. I have a foot in the door luckily because he was my old football coach, which helped me extremely throughout. The interview questions I made were:

What experience do you have in the fitness and coaching field?

What made you decide to coach this team?

What changes have you made to the team as a hole?

Where do you plan to take the team in the future?

I thought it was also important to get the perspective of a member of the team, preferably one that has been wrestling for a few years at my school and around to experience both old and new coaches. One member, Carlos Sosa, Junior agreed to have an interview with me after practice at the same time with his coach. I also developed some questions for him:

What changes has this new coach made for your wrestling team?

What is one thing that he [the coach] changed that you are most happy with?

Scouting locations for photo shoots

Upon meeting with the wrestling coach, he informed me that if I were to take pictures of the wrestling team, It would have to be in this room. This limits me extremely in what I am trying to do, however, when framing my shots I must be up close to avoid showing as much background as I can.

Flat plan

When designing a flat plan I wanted to include stories that appeal to my target audience, which is athletes. Not only writing stories that inform athletes of their competition, but also informing them on ordeals that effect them and their respective sports. It was my idea to have the "state champion ____" in our respective sports for each season throughout each issue. This is useful because it appeals to the sports viewer, not just athlete.

Cover Template

Continuing with the black/orange/white color scheme, influenced by my school colors, we have 3 different fonts. The top font is designed to appeal to the boldness of athletes. I see similar font used within the football locker room and weight room. The stories on the side are meant to consume and blank space not in focus for the picture, and give athletes a hint of what is inside, perhaps peaking interest. The arrow I used to create originality was inspiration drawn from one of the magazines I researched in the past. It draws even more attention to the picture and directs the readers eyes in an exact location. Someone in my group came up with the title of the magazine which makes sense because all other issues of this magazine are seasonal, along with our mascot being a sailor.

Table of Contents Template

In order to establish our color scheme, orange and black is my group's school colors which means that these colors will be most prominent in our pictures most likely. The black X's is where i plan to add in pictures. Once I add pictures, i may change the background from white in order to make the page more interesting, however I may consequentially have to change the color of all my pages. I created the "state champions" portion which will be in every issue, also the "extra points" category which will as well. I created the "changes for competitors" grouping because at the time of creation for this magazine, most organizations change their standards for the new year. I will use these fonts on the front cover as well in order to establish a sense of a brand throughout.