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I scheduled the photoshoot with Savannah to be on the same day I did the interview with her. We took pictures around downtown with my camera. We found some colorful walls, some brick buildings, and I even took a few shots that had her reflection on the glass window of a store she was next to. the shoot took around an hour and a half.

When I was scouting locations for a photo shoot, I considered multiple locations. I looked at a couple of parks near me but decided on downtown. There are a lot of cool older-looking buildings and graffiti on the walls. There's a lot of vibrant colored walls that made good backgrounds. I walked around downtown before meeting Savannah and scouted out a few cool spots to take pictures. There was a bright yellow bike with flowers on it, a blue wall, and some plants that would make a good background.

I originally wanted to do my article on Jilissa Ann, a college student who lives in my town. She has an Instagram account with 210 thousand followers. I wanted to ask her how she decides what outfits to wear in the pictures she posts and how it affects her and others. I e-mailed her business e-mail asking if she wanted to do an interview and a photoshoot, but I never heard back. A couple days later I direct messaged her on Instagram and she still didn't reply. I waited three days, and when she still didn't reply, I decided to ask someone else for an interview and a shoot. I decided to contact Savannah West, a local college student who had 40.2 thousand Instagram followers. I direct messaged her on Instagram, and she replied a few hours later. She said she would be thrilled to do an interview and a photoshoot, so we set up a date to do the shoot and do the interview over lunch. I brainstormed a list of questions I would ask her. I came up with a good number of questions and made...

For my flat plan, I made an account with a flat plan website instead of making a table. I made sure to have advertisements throughout the magazine, and have more ads at the beginning like other magazines do. I included a 'credits' page where the different people working on an actual magazine would be credited. The page numbers of the different pages are at the bottom left and right of the pages.

For my Table of Contents template, I looked at other magazines for inspiration. I saw one magazine had used the word "directory" instead of "table of contents" and I thought that was really interesting. I decided to make the numbers larger than the font of the articles, and have pictures throughout the different titles. I used pictures of some pumpkins I had taken as placeholders for the actual pictures I would put in.

For my cover template, I looked at a variety of magazines like Vogue, Seventeen, and Elle for inspiration. I have the title of the magazine at the top, along with some blurbs about articles on the sides. I also have the issue month and year at the top.