Project 7 Newsletter

During project 7 the goal was to collaborate with a group of 4 people and brainstorm ideas to create a newspaper or magazine. Each person in the group had to write their own article about the topic and add all the elements that is needed for an article. Our team leader chose the topic sports and within that topic we narrowed it down to Bodybuilding, because we found that it would be an easier writing piece to create. At first everyone in the class was suppose to write their own article for the peer reviewing section. On Friday we reviewed other works and wrote comments about them. For my writing i chose to write about Arnold Schwarzenegger and how he became a bodybuilder and his meals throughout the day.  With this we incorporated our work together into InDesign and began combing the works. In order for the group to finish on time, I decided to take responsibility and take the project home to finish it, and make it more appealing. To the left is the cover I made for our magazine, and I used mens health magazine for inspiration and how they created theirs. I took responsibility because firstly i wanted to pass and secondly, I felt that if I took it home i would be able to create something that was good and i would like the extra practice and work. The outcome was amazing to me because Ive never created a cover page and an article that looks good. What Ive learned during this project was that communication was key to get ideas across the board and Ive learned that I can make good covers and learned some new techniques. This can be used in the future for Web Designer because each tool I have learned during the course was implemented into creating my cover for my article and the magazine. Also these works can be used into a portfolio and served as extra practice for my internship.