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Cover Layout:  The cover layout consists of a picture of Klay Thompson. The main article is based on the famous NBA (National Basketball Association) player. Klay is wearing his jersey but he is laid back on a chair with his feet propped up on a basketball. He is wearing sunglasses while sitting on a golf course hole and in the background you can see a pool with a basketball hoop and the view of the city behind him. The font of the text is very large with 4 NBA- All star names at the top and then the title SLAM. In the bottom right corner is the title of the article about Klay which is: Buckets and Chill. There are lots of different colors used but mostly the green from the gold course stands out. Articles Included:  All of the articles are based on present or past basketball players or associations. Many of the basketball players are big names that would be recognized by most people. The articles appear on majority of the pages. Advertisements:  The first page is a...

Cover Layout:    The cover of the magazine is of the Kansas City Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes. He is wearing his jersey and helmet which are all red with some white. The background of the cover is all fuzzy but you can see the red used in the back. He is looking at the camera very seriously with a serious face. Articles Included:  The articles included are all based on current sports events. They appear on every page except for after articles there are usually advertisements instead of another article. Advertisements:  The advertisements are based for middle aged men like trucks and alcohol and things that you would use during a football game like soda and chips. There is also an ad for toothpaste. The ads occur usually after/before articles and a lot of them are on the beginning pages of the magazine. Table of Contents/Article Pictures:  The pictures used consist of mostly action shots of the athletes and the cover athlete. Distribution Number: ...

Cover Layout:  The cover of this magazine consists of 7 different people. Two of them are playing basketball, one of them is the coach and the other four look like teammates on the bench  doing a celebration. The colors on the cover are mostly blue and white and the background is a faded picture of their mascot. The three words in the title are all different sizes and fonts but they are all in white. In the bottom left hand corner of the cover there is a title or statement which has to do with their main article. Articles Included:  The main article is about men's basketball then there are articles on other sports and the on campus things, alumni and a celebration of 40 years. Advertisements:  The advertisements that are included all have to do with the college Monmouth because this is their magazine. There are ads to buy Monmouth gear, books and to register for a golf tournament. There are very few ads and only appear after a couple of articles. Table of Con...

Cover Layout:  The cover layout is very intriguing and eye appealing. It has an NFL star, Julio Jones, standing in the middle of the page with darkness surrounding him. There is lots of black. The text used is white and red and Julio's jersey is red. Sports Illustrated uses lots of bold fonts, using different sized text, italics and different colored text. There are also lots of different descriptions of smaller articles that are found throughout the magazine. On the cover there is only one picture and it is of an NFL standing making a serious face. Articles Included:  The articles included talk about the biggest stories based on the wide variety of sports. It is very diverse based on what current events are going on in sports. There is also the main article based on who/what is on the cover page. These articles appear on every other page usually.  Advertisements:  There are many different types of ads but all of them are meant for middle aged men. For example...

I have chosen to do the magazine project. I chose this because making a magazine is more typical for me because I enjoy reading and writing a magazine more than making a film. I possess the skills of having a background knowledge on sports which is what I will be writing my magazine on. I'll be writing a magazine on basketball. I will be working alone on this project because I like being more individual. I look forward to taking pictures for my magazine and researching many different facts about the current sports events. I will have pictures of people playing basketball for my cover and my main article will be about basketball.

Some aspects of film that may interest me are the wide variety of genres and ideas that you can put into a film. I really enjoy comedies like the movie Ferris Bueller that we watched in class. I was very interested in that movie which is a reason that the film would be a good project for me. I also enjoyed the Newsroom which gave me some ideas of what I could add into a film. I am very creative and give good ideas which would help me produce a film. Also I am determined to finish whatever I start which would help me with the project. One thing that might make the film project a challenge for me is that I am not very good at coming up with scripts. I would struggle with figuring out what the cast and I should say. This would be a problem because it would extend the timeline of the production of the film and the things on the script may not make sense. Overall I think that the magazine would be a better project for me personally rather than the film.

I thoroughly enjoy reading magazines. I especially enjoy reading sports magazines and articles. I feel that this personal enjoyment will help make this magazine project a great fit for me. I also grew up reading magazines. When I was younger had a monthly subscription to Sports Illustrated. I feel like this project may be a challenge for me because I have trouble writing long articles. My main problems with writing articles is that I can steer off topic very easily. Print journalism provides an interest to me because I like getting to know things about people or things that they are hiding. This was shown in the All the President's Men and Nixon. It was also shown in the Newsroom. This is all very interesting to me and I believe that I can get past my problem of struggling with writing long articles and staying on topic so I believe the magazine project will be a great fit for me,