For my senior seminar, I decided to combine my journalism skills and graphic design skills. This is Stream-A-Zine: A Magazine Covering Streaming Content. I added one more element to this project and that is my hobby of reviewing movies and television. It operates as a digital magazine with interactive elements such as hyperlinks. The magazine is 18 pages long. It contains nine movie reviews, two television reviews and two feature stories on streaming services. All of the content reviewed was on some form of streaming platform such as Netflix, HBO Max, Vudu or Hulu. With COVID-19 still around, many people are still afraid to go to the movies or other places. Streaming has grown in popularity in 2020. With so many streaming services out there, the goal of the magazine was to help the reader decide what the best streaming content of Spring of 2021 was. The target audience was college students. I created the magazine using InDesign, but I used Photoshop to get the picture of the hand and Illustrator to create the front and back covers. The magazine was published on Issuu. Here is the link to the magazine in digital format: https://issuu.com/stream-a-zine/docs/stream-a-zine_
Abstract
The project was a digital magazine that contained movie and television reviews on streaming services. It also had two news stories about streaming. This magazine was made to satisfy the niche of a product dedicated on streaming content and to help viewers find content on services suitable for them. The target audience was college students who lack a magazine about movies and television dedicated to them. One of the goals of the magazine was to educate readers on more obscure content. Genre played a huge role into judging different factors for different films and categorizing certain content into genres. The reviews were written using the journalism approach and several of the news values. All of the reviews used first person to help include the audience. The magazine itself was created on Adobe InDesign. The front and back cover were created on Illustrator with the hand being made on Photoshop. The final magazine was published on Issuu.
Senior Seminar Presentation
Link to my presentation: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1YDITIxlhwwcCriwGF5BYWlMfLQg1Zrr2/view?usp=sharing