Figuring it all out...

Okay this magazine is definitely harder than it looks. Before starting you need to have your ideas straight or else it's not going to come out as you might of imagined it. That’s what I have been doing this whole week. Let me start by saying that I really want to make sure my message is clear through this magazine, so I needed to sit down and create a sort of checklist of my tasks before starting. After figuring out that it’s going to be a lifestyle magazine, I then came up with the title. I began by searching up synonyms for strong and took some words into consideration, like Likely and Powerful for my titles. However, I came upon the word Vitality, which means exuberant in physical strength or mental vigor, and decided it was PERFECT! Yet, I’ve come to the understanding that a company is also called Vitality, so I need to make sure it's okay to use. After, I started to create story lines that will appear on the cover of the magazine and in the table of contents. Some I came up with are:  “20 ways to become more confident” and “Essential yoga routines for stress relief.” I’m in the process of making 12 cover lines in order to have enough content for the magazine. I then moved onto the two-page spread. Like I had mentioned before, I’m going to interview three girls in different school sports teams, like track and flag football. My main idea when writing this article is trying to show the strength of these young, athletic individuals. Honestly I always admired girls who are able to be part of school sports teams and not mind other people’s perception of them. Hence, that’s what I want to show, that girls can be apart of any sports teams they enjoy. The title of this article will be called “Get your head in the Game.”A problem that faced in the process was with my target audience. I’m going back and forth in deciding whether or not to expand my target audience's age range. But, after really thinking out about, I’m going to stick with 15 to 25 year olds. This is because women in their mid-30s already have Shape and Fitness magazines that satisfy their ideas of a certain body image, and so there is less of a possibility that they will read upon new body types that are different but still as beautiful. Next, to make sure I’m sticking with the message that having physical and mental strength is beautiful, I wrote a short ‘about’ paragraph for my magazine:

‘Vitality is a lifestyle magazine that focuses on informing young women of today about fitness and helping them achieve mental and physical goals.’

Obviously this is a rough draft, but that's the general idea. Lastly, after finally having a more clear path towards achieving this magazine, I started to create an outline of what my cover page, table of contents, and two-page spread will look like. It’s definitely just a sketch, but again it surely gets me a lot closer to my final product.