I tried to create sort of a news story type piece that highlights the detriments of stretches that are commonly thought as good practice to do before workouts. This ties into my topic choice of fitness and is something I believe should be widely known to everyone. This is why I choice a news or article type style so that it comes off as an informative piece. I did a some research by looking at medical studies that prove what I state as fact so that it would be as true to the truth as possible without exaggerating to such a point that lets people know that stretching is not bad for you for everything, just particular warm ups are not beneficial towards some activities. In adobe I took the best sound bits of my recording of a gym atmosphere to really emphasize the fact that it is a gym. I then put those points as my introduction and at the end of the piece. Overall I think this is a decent piece and I just need to work on the actual story of the piece more so that it flows better and has useful information on what stretches are best for activities and give examples of some basic stretches. I am also not sure if my gym recording exemplifies the idea that it is in fact from a gym and that it is apparent to all listeners.

Article that I used for facts

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3273886/

Thinking of doing a news story type that informs people of what stretches are the most helpful.

This is my draft of my cover photo for my blog I might need to blend the images better to have a nicer contrast. This is just a rough outline I started with the guy flexing and tried to find imagery that didn’t clash too much. I wanted to try to make something that stands out and portrays the idea of health might look into adding more of a health feel. I mainly followed the layer and cutting tutorial from the Photoshop tutorial last week. I combined a couple of images through layering. Some things could definitely be touched up the cutting tool didn’t work as intended and a lot of time was spent editing the cut photo. The images i selected I looked around for different scenery photos until I found a few that I liked and tested out a few to see how they look. The Lighthouse is from Greece something that is synonymous with athletics due to its history with creating the Olympics. The sky I just liked the look of and chose to include it I might try to find a more fitting sky so that their isn’t such a harsh contrast with night and day or even darken the lighthouse and sea. The quote I made is inspired by the Gandhi quote ” It is health that is real wealth and not pieces of gold and silver”.

My idea for the graphic design is to have an overview idea of what the blog will cover

Both images obtained online are public domain links provided in hyperlinks

Here are my completed tutorials

Be yourself; Everyone else is already taken.

— Oscar Wilde.

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