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I have chosen to do the magazine project. Some skills I have that would make this process the best fit for me are that I'm very creative and can edit photos. I am skilled at photography, writing, and designing layouts. My project would be a fashion magazine. I want my article to either be about how famous people influence daily fashion, or how runway fashion differs from everyday (street) fashion and how they affect each other. If I'm able to, I would like to interview someone who works in the fashion field. I haven't decided on what I want to title my magazine yet. I will work alone on my project.

An aspect of film production that interests me are the different shots used while filming. I'm interested in learning how all the different shots used invoke different emotions in viewers and how the shots themselves represent characters's feelings. I'm also interested in the script writing process of film production. Films can be more entertaining because they tell a story--usually with a lot of drama involved. A skill I possess that would make the film project a good fit for me is that I'm a good writer, so coming up with a story and writing a script would be interesting to do. I'm also a good video editor. The project might be a challenge for me because I have never recorded or made any type of film before, and I'm not familiar with editing software other than iMovie.

Since I was six years old, I've been getting fashion magazines to my house. As I got older the magazines matured, but I've always had an interest in the articles, spreads, letters from the editor and even advertisements in magazines. In school, I often have to read online articles about various subjects, which I enjoy because of how informative they are. I like reading interviews because you can read the questions the interviewer asked in order to get the information they were looking for, opposed to just reading the interviewee's answers. The only part of newspapers I read were the comic section, which doesn't really count as journalism. I think that the magazine project would make a great fit for me. I'm a good writer, interested in graphic design, good photographer, and have a good sense of how to make creative and eye-catching layouts. the project could be a challenge because I don't know how to work the design software and edit photographs. Overall, I think