Pre-Production

Front Page design for magazine

This photograph shows the front page of our magazine which I drew on a piece of paper, it contains the title of which I want the font to be in, which is like a bubble effect font in sky blue, then having an 'air bubble' in the 'O' to write the date and issue of the magazine in. The background will be mountainous with the model looking straight at the camera with y2k sunglasses on. This incorporates the season of spring, when the weather is picking up a bit and you can go on walks and see great landscapes. The price of the product is in the top left and is inside of a popped bubble, this carries on the theme from the title. The main topic and a few of the other article titles are on the front page, dotted around on the left and the right side of the page. Each of these impact my product because they add more to the front cover and make people interested to read more.

Location Recce

A location recce is important because it shows where we had done our photo shoot. The recce shows the possible dangers of the location as there were hazards we had to take extra precautions for. This impacts my project because if one of us were to slip and any camera equipment breaks we would have to put our project on halt. Another way it could impact our project is if the model had slipped and got his clothes muddy, or even worse gets injured, this would impact us because his outfit is the reason of the photo shoot in the first place.

Interview Questions

These are my interviewee questions. These are vital and important to my project because they are the backbone of how the rest of the article they were for gets written. It turns out all of these were good questions and my interviewee provided me with brilliant answers for the article.

Release Forms

This is my release form for my model whom is on the front of my front page. We shot on the 5th of April 2023 which was the first week of production. This impacts my project because without this signature, I cannot legally use the photos as he has not given me consent to do so.

Magazine Mock Ups

This is the mock-up for my magazine, I quickly threw this together on photoshop to show how i wanted my pages to look, obviously, in the actual magazine there are a couple more pages with more content, but this is just a rough sketch of what it might look like. This impacts my project because it gives me an idea of what I want my magazine to look like, and helps to navigate what I want and where I want it.

Articles

Summer Essentials

With trends constantly taking over social media, things go in and out of fashion constantly. Today I’m going to go through what I think will be massive this summer. It’s no surprise that fast fashion has taken over the internet and UK streetwear, even though this is not a good thing, it means trends go in and out of fashion more or less instantly, some stick around though, and I’m going to tell you what I think will be around for the whole of the2023 summertime. First of all, Jorts. You heard me, jorts. Baggy jean shorts are taking the UK fashion scene by storm right now as the English summer time approaches. Some shoes that fit the vibe of jorts are; Nike Air max 95’s, Nike Air Shox, and Nike Jordan 4. All these iconic silhouettes complement the jorts very well and each are summer shoes. And for the top I like how windbreakers look with jorts. A few brands that make nice windbreakers are; Corteiz, The North Face, Supreme, Nike And Arc’teryx. In an interviewwith Brad Shafi (TikTok @bradshafi) who is a high-end sneaker reseller and fashion influencer, saidhis perfect ‘fit items for this summer would be ‘a Burner World hoodie, a plain
T-shirt, double knee jeans, Reese Cooper jackets, Poplin pants, and wide leg jogger bottoms’. With his shoes of the summer being ‘Jordan 2s, Jordan 3s, Adidas chunky hiking trainers.’ He also told usto watch out for these upcoming brands this summer: Burner World, Sorrysora, and Drip Daddy.In this photo of me, I’m wearing my beforementioned jorts, which i think put this outfit together, i paired them with a black Stussy knitted sweater and white and red Nike x Supreme Air Force One’s, which give a pop of colour to the outfit.

Must have drops this summer

First up, let’s have a look what Nike SNKRS has lined up, starting with May 20th 2023, is the Nike Air Jordan 1 ‘Next Chapter’. Which is what they describe as a ‘Fresh Take’ on the iconic Chi cago colourway (red and black, named Chicago as the Chicago Bulls played wearing red and black jerseys, whom Michael Jordan played for when Nike signed him back in 1984, which is also when this iconic silhouette was created). The shoe is based on the upcoming movie ‘Spider-Man:
Across the Spider-Verse’. This is the shoe we will be seeing the main character, Miles Morales, wearing throughout the film on-screen. The shoe consists of a mix of materials, including leather and suede for a comfortable feel on foot. The shoe will retail for a price of £179.95.

Next up, we have the Nike Air Max 1 Crepe ‘Light Bone’. Another Iconic silhouette in the shape of Air Max 1. For the colour of the shoe, a soft beige and cream hues make up the upper, the midsole also being beige, which complements the gum/crepe sole. This shoe’s standout piece is definitely the light blue denim mudguard, it’s so unique but brings the whole shoe together. This shoe screams good vibes! You can pick these babies up from Offspring on the 20th of May 2023 for a price of £140.00.

Ugly Fashion

First of all, what even is fast fashion? Basically, fast fashion is replicating recent trending catwalk designs, mass producing them and selling them for cheap. It doesn’t sound like much, but it has a catastrophic impact on the environment. Over 92 million tonnes of wasted fast fashion ended up contributing to global warming in 2020, this is simply unacceptable, and change is needed now. To combat this, do not buy into trends that wont interest last. For example, a technique I use is, when buying new clothes, I ask myself if I think I would wear the piece in a years’ time. If not, don’t buy it, if I will, buy it.

Do not let clothes go to waste as it is becoming a recurring theme that these fast fashion trends are extremely harmful to our planet. Instead of buying brand new clothes from places like SHEIN, H&M and Boohoo, buy second hand preloved clothes from somewhere such as a charity shop, which gives the proceeds to charities and sells good clothes for dirt cheap, I like to go scouting and it gives me a rush when I find I nice piece for cheap. The donation aspect makes you feel good as well as you are giving to charity with something in return.

According to Earth Org, America alone has 11.3 million tons of textile waste (estimated). That’s equivalent to 85% of all textiles end up in landfills on a yearly basis. Clothes Aid, a British clothes recycling charity, said 350,000 tonnes or £140 Million worth of used but still wearable clothes go into landfill in the UK each year. This needs to be controlled asap, people do not understand the effect this is having on our own world. Fashion is beautiful, but not in an ugly world.

Fame = Style?

Recently, UK rapper and celebrity Central Cee has released his own clothing brand, named ‘Syna World’, mainly manufacturing tracksuits and a few T-Shirts. Obviously, people went crazy over this drop. A few hours before the online release, the brand did an in-person drop with the man himself there, can you imagine already how that went down? The fans and followers of Central Cee (or Cench for short) were pushing, shoving, and shutting down roads just for the chance to get a glimpse of their favourite rapper and to possibly get a tracksuit, someone even sent their Nan! People were following Central Cee as if they were his disciples, it was pure madness.

Now, the actual clothes. It’s no mystery that tracksuits are a staple of UK/London streetwear, as we have the giants such as Corteiz, Nike Tech, and Trapstar. Back to Syna World, the hoodie features branding across the hood, and the bottoms with branding on the, well… bottom. The hoodie and bottoms feature some crazy drawstrings which are like ropes. The tracksuits dropped in the colourways: ‘Blue’, ‘Grey’, ‘Red’, and ‘Sage’.

Personally, I’m not a fan of the tracksuits, but I can see the appeal to his fans who idolise him and try so hard to be just like him. I’m not saying they aren’t nice, but I just couldn’t see myself wearing it. The tracksuits are already reselling for upwards of £250. From retail, the tracksuit costs £184.23. That’s around £66 profit if you were to resell!

It just goes to show that people will go to extreme, ridiculous lengths just to appear relevant or just to be like their idols.