Changes made throughout the FMP

Topic :

My original plan was to make a magazine soley related to grassroots football, featuring articles based on different aspects of the game. As I progressed into writing the articles about grassroots football, I quickly realised that my knowledge on the subject was far more limited than my knowledge on proffesional football. After spending some time researching grassroots, I came to the conclusion that there was simply not enough interesting topics that I could write about in order to keep my audience interested. After making this decision I decided to make a regular football magazine, but kept the idea of grassroots in mind. This is how I came to making my magazine a “Grassroots special”, as it would give me the freedom to not only write about non-league football.

Articles:

Throughout the pre-production stage of my magazine I juggled many ideas of what to write about before setteling on 3 which I found most interesting. Originally I had planned to write about grassroots fitness, coaching and an interview with a player, however once the topic of the magazine had switched these were no longer feesable. I did consider keeping the interview with a player, but he was not available to talk so I had to reconsider another idea. This led to me interviewing a coach instead which ended up being one of my 3 pieces. My other 2 articles were written after some consideration and research as I needed articles that would interest my readers.  I settled on writing one piece about a recent event for my younger audiemce, and another about a player from the 90’s to interest both my younger and older readers.

Design:

The design of my magazine has not changed a lot since I started this project as I have consistantly stuck with the design of 70’s magazine. I have experimented with fonts to see what ones look most appealing and consulted my tutors to ask for their opinions. I ended up choosing “rockwell” as I felt it looked best on the front of my magazine. The other aspect of my design that has changed are the images. I have had to look through a vast number of images in order to choose which ones go best with my colour scheme and which ones are the best quality. I feel that the images I have settled with are both high quality and fit very well with my colour scheme.