Final Creative Critical Reflection Submission

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Final Product Submission

Draft: 3rd Quarter Submission

Planning: CCR Question 4 Draft

Response to Question 4:

"How did you integrate technologies – software, hardware and online – in this project?"

• Microsoft Word
• Google Blogger
• Google Chrome
• Canon PowerShot Camera
• Adobe Reader DC
• Prezi

Planning: CCR Question 3 Draft

Response to Question 3:

"How did your production skills develop throughout this project?"

• digital editing with Microsoft Word
• importing/exporting files (jpg, pdf, docx)
• planning photoshoots
• practicing camera shots and angles
• capturing visual aesthetics 
• knowing magazine conventions
• utilizing colloquial/formal writing styles

Planning: CCR Question 2 Draft

Response to Question 2:
"How does your product engage with audiences and how would it be distributed as a real media text?" 

Engage with Audiences

• branding
• colloquial language
• visual aesthetics 
• interactive content
• lifestyle/human interest pieces
• applicable advice

Distribution

• paid circulation
• $3.50 per issue or annual subscription of $10
• distributed statewide in Florida
• triannual distribution (every 4 months)
• begin with distribution of 2 million print copies per issue

Planning: CCR Question 1 Draft

Response to Question 1:
"How does your product use or challenge conventions and how does it represent social groups or issues?"

Conventions Used:

• masthead
• feature article photo
• selling line
• captions
• spread
• kicker
• menu strip

Conventions Challenged:

• pugs
• barcode
• credits
• box-out

Social Groups/Issues:

• teenagers-young adults
• mostly female audience
• urge for safe travel within Florida
• inspiration/motivation to take on liberty/responsibility of travel
• satisfies young wanderlust

Production Research: Distribution of Seventeen Magazine

Seventeen Magazine is the largest teen monthly brand. Although the magazine distributes physical issues of their magazines monthly to a large consumer base of majority-young women in the United States. The magazine has built a large digital multi-media empire, which includes a Seventeen android app for phones. The magazine reaches more than 15 million readers in both print and online every single month.

Production Research: Distribution of Rolling Stone Magazine

The total circulation of Rolling Stone Magazine is about 1,450,000. The magazine has nearly as many subscriptions, with about 1,380,000 subscribers in the fiscal year of 2015 mostly residing in the United States. The average subscription for the magazine is about $2 per issue. On November 9, 2012, the magazine published its first Spanish-language section on Latino music and culture, in the issue dated November 22. In September 2016, Advertising Age reported that Wenner is in the process of selling a 49% stake of the magazine to a company from Singapore called BandLab. The new investor will have no direct involvement in the editorial content of the magazine. In September 2017, Wenner Media announced that the remaining 51% of Rolling Stone magazine is up for sale.[30] In December 2017, Penske Media announced to buy the remaining stake from Wenner Media.

Production Research: Distribution of InStyle Magazine

InStyle has a total magazine audience of almost 9 million readers, the majority from the United States. The magazine's total audience who utilizes its website is about 10 million. In regards to marketing opportunities for its partners, the magazine grants opportunities from red carpet to retail. InStyle offers a full calendar of programs, events and opportunities that will help your brand inspire and influence millions of highly-engaged women. Capabilities of this magazine when distributing to its audience include signature red carpet, celebrity, influences & consumer events, digital, video & social packages, native solutions, and custom 360-degree programs.