Photo Shoot Plan

I am planning to go take pictures on Saturday with my friend, Derick, and with my boyfriend to help Derick pose and look as muscular as possible in each picture. We are planning to go to Fort Lauderdale beach and take some pictures on the beach, working out at the calisthenics area, and at The Gym. I'm going to bring dumbbells to take pictures of Derick working out with the incredibly scenic sunset in the background, adding colors to the images.
I am trusting Derick to choose his own workout-esque outfit for the shoot and we are both bringing our cameras and two different lenses each to get a variety of different images to choose from.

Image Ideas

I am planning to start shooting pictures this week for the cover and the spread. In order to achieve the images that I see in my head, I need an interesting location and the models that I have in mind to be portrayed in my images (my two friends).
For the cover, I originally spoke of a sillhoute like image but now I am thinking of a high contrast image with a very visually appealing background.  To do this, I was thinking of either shooting at the beach or at this gym that is on a rooftop right by the beach at sunset to have a brightly colored sky in the background. I could even still take pictures with my original silhouette image in mind because the lighting on the rooftop would make this possible. For the images in the spread, I want to do close ups of my friend while he works out and/or close ups of the gym equipment. I feel that the combination of all these images will work out very well and will bring the article together.
 
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Q and A Questions

 I have constructed a list of possible questions for the q and a:
1. When did you first begin your workout journey?
2. What steps did you take in order to dedicate yourself to working out?
3. What do you feel has been the most important lesson you've learned from working out?
4. Why did you decide that working out was for you?
5. What would you say has positively impacted you the most in your fitness?
6. What time of day do you feel is the best to work out at? Why?
7. What is your favorite pre-workout snack?
8. What is your favorite workout to do?
9. What are essentials for you to bring to the gym? (For this question I want to include visuals based on his response)
10. What advice do you have for a beginner?
11. How has working out affected your lifestyle?
12. How has working out affected the way you feel mentally and physically?
It's obviously possible that when I sit down with my friend I may think of other questions or I may decide that I don't want to include one of these questions. No matter what, I feel that this list is a good starting point and definitely includes the kind of material I am aiming to achieve through this interview.

Finalizing My Spread Ideas

When I was first writing on my ideas for the magazine, I wasn't realizing the only articles I would be creating would be only be for the two page spread. This makes my decision towards an article much simpler. So, I have finally decided that I am doing my two page friend on my close friend who recently lost a significant amount of weight and has achieved striking muscular fitness in just months. Since I am not going to have the ability to write multiple articles like I thought I was, I want to include a little mini recipe at the bottom of the spread.
The format that I want to utilize to present it is a q and a, like an interview. I am going to construct a list of possible questions and decide which questions would be most appropriate to include in the final article depending on his answers. After viewing multiple articles in print and online magazines, I decided that the q and a style article would work the best and be the most appealing for the reader.
Articles viewed: http://www.thepathmag.com/hollywood-trainer-jeanette-jenkins-on-health-fitness/
https://healthy-magazines.com/qa-olivia-harlan/

Recipe Article brainstorming

For one of my articles, I want to do a recipe; currently, I am in between a smoothie or a healthy snack. I feel that both articles would be appealing to someone interested in a fitness magazine. The healthy snack recipe that I would include would be a recipe for cucumber salt and vinegar "chips"! These "chips" are a great alternative for people trying to eat healthier and avoid a surplus of calories without sacrificing the satisfying crunch of regular chips.
My other recipe option would be some kind of strawberry banana smoothie that could include hidden vegetables. I feel that this article would be very appealing because people do struggle with including vegetables into their diets, so this would just be very helpful.
The front page of the recipes site for fitness magazines includes a large image of health-conscious smoothies followed by images of other healthy snacks; this is encouraging because it confirms that the recipe idea that I have in mind are relevant to the genre and will appeal to the general audience of my genre. https://www.fitnessmagazine.com/recipes/

The Kinds of Images I want to Include

For the ideas for my articles throughout my magazine, appropriate images are necessary. I want to have relevant and visually appealing and interesting images to go along with my articles that will keep readers engaged. I have explored the different kind of images I could include for each kind of article and here are some notes I have taken down along the way.

For a workout routine article, I considered either step-by-step images explaining how to do certain exercises or interesting images of model doing workouts. I looked at both options and as of now, I think I prefer the interesting images of models just performing the exercise, I feel that this appeals more to all crowds; but, step-by-step images would be helpful to anyone trying to replicate the workout.

Step-by-step:

For the recipe, I have noticed two main styles of presentation; the first is when the recipe image is the background. The other option is a plain background with an almost "sticker" like effect where you cut out the image background to only have the object cropped alone. 

example of cut out:

Example of background:

Cover Brainstorming

I have begun editing my magazine as a whole creation very recently on joomag. I decided the reoccurring color that will be seen throughout my magazine will be red; I want to have multiple red accents throughout the magazine. Here is an example with an orange color that reoccurs in this spread:
Many marketers use specific colors to market products because of the study of color psychology. Since red is representative of power, I am going to utilize red on my cover and throughout my spread to encourage the feelings of power and excitement towards the articles being read and a sense of strength for the reader that is going to accomplish the fitness mentioned throughout. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_psychology