Question #1: Creative Critical Reflection Draft

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

      Fashion Co. uses conventions because it looks like most magazines. The cover page uses a typical gossip/fashion magazine layout with a full image taking up the background and attention grabbers to the side of the magazine to attract readers. Towards the bottom right side of the magazine a bar code is utilized to tell readers how much the cost of the magazine is in the U.S. as most magazines have. The magazine challenges conventions because even though the background is a full image most fashion magazines tend to display famous celebrities on their covers. This fashion magazine uses the window display of the boutique discussed in the magazine as the cover image. The title font is different than usual fashion magazines that use more standard edgier font than the curly cursive font used in my magazine title. My magazine cover uses shapes to enhance the cover and attract readers attention but fashion magazines don't tend to use shapes. The font of the magazine is the same throughout most of the magazine. The article part of my magazine does not begin with a full page image instead it starts off with the article and two pictures that relate to the article. The final way Fashion Co. challenges conventions is it is about local boutiques in different states, this time about Shore. Traditionally most magazines cover global main stream topics instead of local topics such as boutiques. Fashion Co. represents social groups because it showcases local fashion boutiques that anyone living near them could go and visit, whether it be men, women, or teens. The magazine's target is mainly women or teens, but in many boutiques featured fashionable men's clothing is also available. Women and teens are mainly the magazine's target audience because more teenagers and women purchase magazines then men do. The magazine attempts to target women and girls through fashion by featuring articles on style and tutorials. Therefore, appealing to the audience that purchases products like magazines helps to increase revenue, sales, and also helps to get the magazine more attention. Many girls and women look to fashion magazines to find the latest trends and style. According to Statisticbrain.com "68% of girls and women say they use fashion magazines as their source of finding the latest trends." This is a big percentage and shows how much a fashion magazine like Fashion Co. represents the social group of girls, and women alike.

Blog Revisions

     On my blog I have gone back and edited a couple of posts from the past.

Magazine Pictures Post:

• Edited and differentiated between pictures I took and the professional pictures that were sent to me to use in rough draft of my magazine
• Added captions at the bottom of my pictures to explain where I planned to use them in my magazine and what the pictures were of
•  Changed the titles of both posts to be more specific 

Magazine Article Post:

• Edited the spelling errors in the article that had been posted
• Split up the article into paragraphs to make it easier to read

Blogs From the Past:

• I went back and added graphics to plain blog posts to spice them up
• The pictures were relating to the posts to grab attention or further explain the post
• Added spaces to make posts easier to read and look less cluttered 
• Added more sentences to shorter paragraphs on updates

Images of Magazine Revision

     These are the images of the revisions I have made so far, I have finished the Table of Contents, Article #1, and Article #2. I plan on having the Cover page done by the end of next week. All I have left to do is place the cover picture in the background and change the font color to one that matched my color scheme according to how the cover picture looks. Also, I plan on meeting with my teacher to get feedback on any final changes left to do on my magazine that I might have missed. 

Revisions Post

     So far I have completed most of my revisions on my Magazine except replacing the cover picture. I have the picture I plan on using as my Cover but I am having trouble making the picture fit to my magazine size. The picture also tends to hide some of the text so I have to figure out how to avoid this so the text is legible.

Revisions made
Cover:

• Corrected spelling errors
• Changed font of  title
• Changed color of font
• Moved bar code over more 

Table of Contents:

• Changed font of title
• Changed picture to my own
• Re-sized emoji s
• Capitalized letters of articles inside 
• Made "Fashion & Features" more visible

Article Page #1

• Changed font color
• Replaced pictures with my own
• Fixed spelling errors

Article page #2

• Changed font color
• Changed pictures to my own
• Made picture bigger 
• Fixed spelling errors
• Shifted paragraphs into more of a column style like the 1st page

Super Bowl Commercials

     In class we went over some advertising techniques that we could use on our magazine by watching Super Bowl commercials and taking notes of what the different brands used to sell their product.

Know- Advertisers use persuasive techniques to persuade consumers to buy their product or support their cause.

Understand- Most techniques are an emotional appeal or an appeal to sensibility.

Do- Write down the following information for 3 commercials- Product, Target audience, Persuasive techniques.



1. Product- Skittles
Target audience- 40-60 years range
Persuasive techniques- Use of celebrity Steven Tyler, attempting to be humorous


2. Product- Hyundai
Target audience- Parents, 20-40 years range
Persuasive techniques- Car finder, use of celebrity Kevin Hart, use of humor


3. Product- Honda Avalanche
Target audience- 35-45 years range
Persuasive techniques- Truck bed audio, humorous (sheep and dog), use of common know artist for age range: Queen