Kinetic Force

Below are possible pictures that I want to use for my pages (Work in Progress (WIP) may choose to add more pictures at a later time)  -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Cover (Edited using Photo App on iPhone) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Table Of Contents (Edited using Photo App on iPhone) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Feature Spread Some of these I plan to edit later, such as the last one with the pumpkins decorating the trees.

Since I had wanted to do a theme park magazine for the Halloween event(s), I knew I had to plan my photos out early. My family decided to go to Halloween Horror Nights (HHN) again this year so I saw my opportunity and took it. I let my dad know that I needed to take pictures of the actors outside of the houses for my magazine and he agreed. Knowing of their strict policy for flash photography and their ban of photography in  houses, I had a feeling this photo shoot would be hard to accomplish. The date was set--October 26th was the night that we would be going to HHN. I had already planned out my stay. I knew where the stilt-walkers would be that I had assigned on my front cover, I knew where the scare zones were which would allow me to take candid pictures of the scare-actors, I even knew where some of the props were since we went to the park earlier in the day. Actually being in the park during the event hours was different. I knew that I needed to take some pictures while...

Feature Spread (Work in Progress) Looking at the WDW magazine feature spread gave me an idea on how to base the layout of my spread. I wanted one full page to be a picture of something related to Halloween Horror Nights with a caption of when the HHN events begins. The other page will be an article about Universal's Halloween Horror Nights (an overview, as in what to expect, pricing, fast pass, and the such). I wish for the title to be in a chiller font, maybe the same as the cover line on the cover.  For the body paragraph, I want a drop capital in a block design or a fancy, script font. The byline should be done in a sans-serif font. In the midst of the text, I want there to be a picture of another creature of HHN.  Since it seems minimal, I might be open to making another spread about what to know before you go to these events in a numbered sequence. Short paragraphs, possibly with pictures. 

Cover (Work In Progress) Getting the creative ideas flowing usually is a hard task but for some reason, what I wanted my cover to resemble came easy to me. I knew from the start that I wanted a creation from Universal's Halloween Horror Nights to be on the cover. From experience, I knew they would be bringing the tradition of at least a pair of stilt-walking characters to their production. Those are the most intimidating to me, and also the most fascinating so I knew I wanted them on my cover. The idea for the masthead popped into my head right as I thought of the name for the magazine. Having the last "e" fly off like a roller coaster really makes the title come together, I think. I wanted to push into the codes and conventions of other travel magazines and made sure my main image was barely obscured by any text, so I am attempting to keep the anchorages that I have on my cover minimal--only about 2 or 3. The idea for the plus sign came from another magazine I saw....

While looking at the group's separate magazine elements for the magazine they chose, we realized that many of the components were the same. While they all were about differing overall topics, at the core, they were strikingly similar. Through this project, I analyzed elements of magazines in my intended genre that I believe may be good to carry over into my own magazine creation. I had done the WDW Magazine, which was admittedly the most child-like out of the five in total that we analyzed. Lorenny did National Geographic [Traveler], a widely known travel magazine. The main cover line seemed to have the most enticing words to pull in their audience, such as "Trips to Change Your Life". Samantha had done  Condé Nast Traveler which looked the most sophisticated. Penelope had done 5280. It's cover had many buzzwords and symbols like plus signs that signified there was more to read. I may implement symbols on my cover page as it is aesthetically pleasing and has pur...

There were many elements in my personal research of WDW magazine that I will be keeping in mind when creating my own magazine, Kinetic Force. The most obvious would be that my cover image will be the focus of attention and there will be minimal cover lines on the front. I will think of incorporating the strip of black at the bottom of the cover with an important cover line on it. Like WDW, I plan to make my main cover line in a themed font. It will be a Halloween, chiller type of font since my magazine will be based around Halloween events in theme parks. For the table of contents, I enjoyed the geometric block-y design of the images with the article title on them for important topics but I would likely make my layout darker and will add my own twist to the overall design. I may switch out the "Also in this Issue..." section of WDW's table of contents for a layout idea I saw when creating my mood board. My feature spread will have one page with a full picture and q...

The first issue of WDW magazine was released in October 2013 and was Halloween-based as their fall/Mickey's Not-So-Scary Halloween event was occurring. It began releasing monthly and was created to inform readers on new developments in their parks as well as pulling in loyal Disney fans to visit their park through reviews and advertisements. It was, however, only available digitally. In the beginning of January 2018 is when things shifted. They announced they were to sell print versions as well soon ; they have a waiting list and have released a couple of copies to some lucky subscribers but nothing set in stone or in stores, yet. The actual audience of the magazine is quite obvious. All you would have to do is look to what their theme park audience is--families! While mostly young adults and adults who are Disney fans subscribe to Walt Disney World Magazine, there are sections for kids (like activities). Walt himself said “You're dead if you aim only for kids [speaking of h...