AICE Media Studies Project

    This is the entirety of my magazine for AICE Media Studies AS Level. The title is Weather or Not, as it's an informational magazine about the weather.

 

      The title of the Space Weather article, though the entirety of the design is a 2-page spread, is going to attempt to make a page its 'own' while not taking up too much space for the article or too little space to seem significant. It will probably be in a muted yellow/gold font, maybe with a cool-temperature green for the subtitle, and the rest of the text may vary in color (from black to white on a possible grayscale) because of the difference in lighting in the background. The background is a modified image of the sun taken in a mirror to make it appear as it if were in space.     There will not be any additional/secondary images, as ones I have don't pertain to the article. Regarding the appeal to a target audience, this article has the job of setting a light-hearted yet professional tone. My writing can be irreverent and attempt to be comedic at points, so using that while transitioning to informational segments may or may not be a challenge for this t...

     For the story on Typhoon Tip and Hurricane Patricia, the spread lacks a dominant or secondary photos, since I couldn't take a picture of a hurricane or hurricane-related conditions while planning the magazine. The headline is meant to be part of the article, possibly indicated by the addition of a comma to help the audience comprehend this while still keeping it at a larger font on a distinct colored background for it. The byline of articles in the magazine would indicate the sources as well as the writer, as these are informational articles, and would be placed at the end of each article. Rather than one 'feature story' (due to my varied interests and the wide variety of meteorological events that can occur in Spring in the U.S., there are planned to be two; this one, and one on Space Weather. Secondary content might include definitions and long-term forecasts. The Space Weather article will have a sub-section of information, as will the Tip v. Patricia article. ...

     The central image is the background of each page, which may or may not challenge the idea of having them in the foreground vs background, and mastheads are less cohesive than they could be due to the wide variety of topics portrayable in meteorology. There is no puff or puffery of any kind, as the scientific nature of the information in Weather or Not is meant to be factual and disregard opinion to be as factual as possible. Pugs and ads are exempted because this magazine is not meant to be promotional; rather informational with a professional facade that makes it distinctly different from other magazines. Conventions are mostly challenged by the color and lack of clutter in this magazine's design that most magazines don't have, most evident in the cover and the visibility of the vivid background imagery. One social issues are challenged in this magazine, as no other humans than myself worked on it, and the information, while being from a scientific area, only refere...