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