Her story was one that capitvated me from the moment we began. She was born in a small hilltop town and raised in a large fishing port town. She told me of her family, what her father did, their journey to America, when her brother was born, her interests in the Italian/Sicilian culture, and where she is with it today.
We were given the assignment to interview our people, write an article, make a magazine layout including headlines, captions, photos, photo editing, sidebars, and much more. Since I was so interested in my person, I found this final project to be easier than what I expected. I wanted to keep the pages simple and let the story and photos captivate you. I didn't make the background a flashy color, or much of anything for that matter. I wanted her story to speak to my readers for itself, but with a little bit of a visual aspect, since it was required.
Also, to make the magazine pages not all the same from every student, our teacher said to put the headline not at the very top of the page. After further review, I found I was able to do that since most of the other students had already put their headlines away from the top. I think the way I wanted my layout to look, very standard and clean, very basic, nothing as I said before too flashy.
