CREATE YOUR OWN MAGAZINE & MAGAZINE COVER

TOP STORIES – SPRING 2015

CREATE YOUR OWN MAGAZINE & MAGAZINE COVER- Business, Sports, Entertainment, Fashion, ETC. Pick a business/industry you are familiar with. COME UP WITH YOUR OWN NAME/TITLE FOR THE MAGAZINE & THEN CREATE THE COVER FOR SPRING 2015 (something recent/current)

Describe the BUSINESS, SPORTS or ENTERTAINMENT Events of SPRING 2015: Business, Sports, Entertainment, Hobby, Fashion, TV/Movies:

SPORTS- Baseball Post Season, Football (College or NFL), Basketball Season Starting, and Alternative Sports.

NON-SPORTS TOPICS COULD INCLUDE: Technology- Video Games, Food/Cooking, Fashion, Gossip, Movies, TV, Music, Home & Garden, Etc.

All pictures, topics, and info should be school appropriate. You should view magazine samples online to get a realistic view of how magazine covers are designed.

YOU WILL CREATE THE COVER OF YOUR OWN MAGAZINE ON PAGE 1 AND TYPE 2 PARAGRAPHS ON PAGE 2 USING MS WORD .

*SEE MY EXAMPLES/MAGAZINES ON THE BACK TABLE OF MY ROOM.

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PAGE 1- CREATE THE COVER OF YOUR OWN MAGAZINE ON A TOPIC OF YOUR CHOICE (school appropriate) FOR THE SPRING OF 2015. YOUR MAGAZINE SHOULD SUMMARIZE THE CURRENT TOP STORIES. YOU CHOOSE THE TOPICS, EVENTS, TEAMS, OR PEOPLE. USE PICTURES, WORDS, ADDITIONAL TOPICS, ETC (MAKE IT REALISTIC).

PAGE 2-

1st paragraph- Type a paragraph (at least 5 sentences) explaining why you chose this cover, what the article would be about, additional topics that you will include in your magazine.

2nd paragraph- In the second paragraph explain some marketing and advertising information: Answer the questions: Who is your audience (Demographics- Details about your audience- Example: Men, Women, Age, etc). What types of advertisings would be relevant to your magazine (give specific details of what ads you would have in this magazine and why).

DO NOT PRINT> SAVE THIS WORK AS “MAGAZINE SPRING 2015” IN YOUR CLASS FOLDER ON YOUR H DRIVE. SHOW THIS TO ME WHEN YOU ARE DONE.