Alessandra's Blog

The final part of the final part of creating this magazine was to put together the fourth page. I decided to put my article title at the top of my page in the font Abril Fatface because the same font was used to describe the same article in the headline on the magazine cover. To add a little pop of color, I went along with the same idea used on my third page and put the title over a green rectangle for contrast. For my article text, I decided to divide the text into two columns with a divider in between them, as three or more would leave little space for even a couple of words. The font I used for the text was Kollektif because it matches the text I used in the table of contents. I keep trying to use the same group of fonts so that my magazine does not look all over the place. When placing the article text from my previous blog into my article on Canva, I encountered something I was expecting, my article was too long. I first decided to remove the section in the article about Nike

The very last part of creating my magazine is to assemble the third and fourth page together. I am first going to put together the third page. Considering that there are a lot of pictures in teen fashion magazines, I wanted to start my article off with a picture. In fact, I wanted the picture to take up an entire page to kind of show that a new article is coming up. A long time, during the photo shoot with Alexa, we took a photo for the main article as well. That is the photo I planned on using for this page. Here is what it looks like: However, I do not want just a plain photo to take up an entire page. I want this page to introduce the reader to the new article, so I wanted to incorporate something into it to tie it to the article. Considering that my actual article is really long, I came up with the idea to introduce the audience to Alexa on this page, rather than take up an entire paragraph in my article to explain about her. Although there is little space in this photo, I

After finishing my article, I wanted to take a picture to put in my article. I ideally wanted the picture to act as a visual for my readers to get an idea of what fast fashion looks like. However, I do not really have much access to factories, landfills, or polluted rivers, so I had to get creative. I remembered that I actually have a lot of old clothes that I do not wear from my "middle school days" but never got rid of. More importantly, a lot of these clothes were produced with fast fashion and contain logos of the companies on them. I wanted to make sure that the shot was close enough to where the reader could tell what brands the clothing was, but far enough to make it look as though there is an overwhelming amount of clothing. Because of these factors, I decided to go with a close up shot to capture my photo. As for the setting, I was definitely not going to take this photo outside because I did not want to get my clothes dirty.  I chose to take it on my wooden floor

Today I will be writing my article... One of the biggest ways teens keep up with the hottest trends is through fashion. Celebrities such as Kanye West and the Kardashians have sparked up trend after trend, which has caused a huge demand for popular clothing stores to keep up with. Although clothing companies have been doing a good job at supplying the demands from teens, a lot of people don't know that they are actually hurting the environment by buying from these mainstream companies. I spoke with a friend of mine about this issue to test how educated she was on this terrible trend called... fast fashion. SO WHAT EXACTLY IS FAST FASHION? "...Fast Fashion is the process of clothes being mass-produced... trends go in and out and the clothes that aren't sold are put into landfills", According to Alexa. She is right. Fast Fashion is the term used to describe clothing that is produced on a massive scale to reach demands from consumers, including teens. These clothin

With my questions ready, I interviewed her later that day. Everything went smooth and she did a great job at going in depth with her answers. The only thing with the questions that I really changed was the order in which I asked the questions. I asked question two before question one because I felt that the question " where do you shop for clothes" was more of a ice breaker for the interview. When asking her where she shops for clothes, she did mention the brands Pacsun, Urban Outfitters and Nike. I planned on taking at least one of these stores and explaining their specific impact on the environment, since I knew that all of these three brands contribute to fast fashion. I decided to choose Nike because it is popular all over the world and specifically teens find nike shoes and jackets trendy nowadays. According to purpose.nike.com, Nike talks about how their environmentally friendly business practices. They made claims such as... - 75% of energy used in their

To conduct the interview, I first needed to come up with questions to ask Alexa. However, I had to take into account that teens do not have a long attention span, so having too many questions and responses in the article may bore them. Eventually, I came up with four concise questions to ask her... 1: What exactly is fast fashion? I chose to ask this first because not only does it lead into the topic I am discussing in my article, but it will also show how much Alexa truly knows about fast fashion. 2: Where do you normally shop for clothes? Since many teens normally shop for clothes in the mall or at outlets, I want to bring this question up to explain to the audience how where they shop directly impacts the environment. 3: Did you know that...? With this question, I wanted to pull up some statistics about fast fashion to get a reaction from not only her, but the audience as well. With this question in particular, I looked up "the effects of fast fashion" and based m