Magazine Design - "body identity" article

"Body Identity" article and shoot

insert article art
★ Main article is on body dysphoria based off of credible sources.
★ Interview and photo shoot of 2-3 people suffering from dysphoria
- Picture will be full body with 1 or 3 people in them.
- Casual posing, nothing big, no props.
★ Interview questions:
- "How does dysphoria affect you?"
- "How often do you suffer from bouts of dysphoria?"
- "What do you do to get over it?"
- "Do you think that dysphoria should becomes better known as a mental illness over how it seen presently, as an episode of unease brought on by dissatisfaction?"

Magazine Design - 2-page spread

"Love, you" body confidence shoot, 2-page spread

This section is about general body positivity with mainly photography, a medium length article and small captions that present the Q&A 

I plan to include

★A small article about body image's key role in self-esteem.

★Past interview excerpts about body image from famous women like Rhianna.

★Model's Q & A (3).
- Would you consider yourself a confident person?
- How have beauty standards affected you?
- What do you find most useful when you're trying to express yourself? Art, make-up, music, or fashion?

★Cutouts and clip-art of response-related content.

Magazine Design - Cover

Types of shots

I plan to use a mix of full shots and wide shots. These shot's distances allow for most of the person to show, which is great for exhibiting the body positive and art themes of my magazine. I also plan to use a close-up eye-level shot which brings in a level of intimacy.

Cover page without any coverlines or details.

Student Survey

Survey Analysis

For my survey, I wanted to figure out the general interest of my class audience whilst also bringing in a couple of theme-specific questions.

Here are screenshots of my results:

A predicted, there are far more females than males in my class, the same goes for age group, all older teenagers in 11th and 12th because those the only grade levels present in my class. I mentioned this in my Assumptions post.

When asked “How do you feel about art as a way of self-expression and as a self-esteem booster?” all my respondents answered positively except for one respondent writing “it is weird”. In the next question, “Would you read a magazine about body positivity and self-expression”? The same pattern followed with one “maybe”.

The remaining three questions are all about personal interest. My results showed that the class was primarily interested in alternative music and fashion and ornate layouts.

Magazine Design - Photography's Comp

Composition

In art and design, composition is an image's structure. An image with good composition when put in black & white shows contrasting values that make the image easy to read. Bad composition looks murky because of all the similar shadow values, which creates a bad visual hierarchy. To achieve good composition, I will be using blurring and desaturating methods on the backgrounds of my images, which in the example is represented by the gradient. My second background which is represented by the darkest blue will also be blurred but not to the degree of the true background, it also will not be desaturated. The foreground will be subject to saturating and colored filters and in general most of the editing. In the example, I am also exhibiting the sort of shots and framing going for, something playful and bit feminine for my feature since I am choosing between my Love, You, and Body Identity article.
(self-produced example)

Magazine Design - Photography/Graphic Design

Magazine Design 2

My photography is going to be shape-centric, as I mentioned in my Preliminary, with dull colors and strong accents. Each section will have their own color scheme in total there will be 4 sets for my 4 sections, in order of importance and percentage: brown/tans, blues, pinks, and lastly, greens. 

Design and color attributes I plan to include:

• Sans serif fonts
• Lots of pretentiously ironic quotation marks (everywhere)
• Lot's of Virgil Ablo inspired stuff in general 
• Chromatic aberrations and colorized images
• Torn / cut look of pasted images
• Color boxes for text and images
• 10% Army green, 5% Neon green 
• 15% Navy Blue, 10% Light shades of Arctic Blue
• 15% Dark pinks, 10% Lighter shades of pink
• 20% Dark to mid Chocolate tones, 15% Nude shades

Magazine Design - Cover lines/Content

Magazine Design 1

To provide the truest and most detailed version of living with a shapely body I plan to use my own classmates and friends. I will be interviewing them on a variety of topics such as daily routine, background info, and info on how their weight or shape has affected them in daily life as well as portray their beauty through meaningful photography that draws the line between myb theme and topic.
The remaining sections will be based on previous interviews and articles about famous shapely celebrities such as Rihanna, Lizzo and Sofia Vergara.