Numbah Two
He’s back with yet another post! Aren’t you excited?
While I was away, I’ve had my group assigned. The current idea for our magazine is “Comedy” with a focus on practical jokes. When I say comedy I don’t mean magazine is meant to be comical, but rather it is on comedy. Ideas for articles include features on the non-stop radio presentation of H.G. Wells War of the Worlds and it’s unintended casualties, the views of principals and other administrative faculty on highschool pranks and a satire piece “Inside the Mind of the Failed Comic.” Other ideas for the magazine include a how-to section, a comical photo essay, infographics on the most popular pranks, a general jokes/comics section, and well, you get the idea by now. To me this theme is both exciting and challenging. It may be hard to come up with really good stories but I think it is highly possible and that the end product will be well worth the extra work.
I think staying on task with this topic should be fairly easy to do, there’s nothing like kicking back and thinking of the craziest and most outlandish ideas for pranks, jokes, and gags. Motivation and ideas may come from reading comics, comedic stories, watching comics, reading papers like the onion etc. Media like this tends to be fairly engaging and the writing of said media tends to follow suit.
My goal for this magazine is to use a topic that is new and fresh and turn it into something that is really great. I think that this theme for practical jokes is going to be something that catches the readers eye and keeps them entertained as they read the magazine. I also feel like this magazine will make readers want to go to their friends with stories and ideas from the magazine. I want it to leave an impression on them and have them spread what ideas they pick up in it. The goal is to have each piece written or produced at a high level of quality and each page designed to both set the mood for the article on it as well as direct the reader to the “good bits” as well as deeper into the magazine.
Hopefully by the next time I’ll be posting here, we’ll be working on several stories and have the grand scheme of things much more layed out. Keep it cool.
David out.
Group Member!
Yeah the whole “practical joke magazine”. Interesting… Hopefully it won’t be too hard for us to come up with 12 articles. We can probably do it though. Original title!! =D No but seriously, nice post.
The Onion is a great pastime. I can’t wait to hear more about it (then again, you could just tell me, rather than making me wait). Hm – you didn’t make me wait. Oh well, it was still fun to say.
A magazine on pranks might soon become quasi-mandatory material for most students. You can hope.
Hey David!
First off, I can’t say that I was that excited. But still, it was engaging!
Second off, you should probably write “non-stop” instead of “none stop”. That confused me, and probably will confuse readers in the future!
Anyways, this gives me a good idea about how your E-zine will be like. Can’t wait to see how it turns out!!
kxx
It’s good to see that you already have some ideas for stories. It will be interesting to see how you make an entire magazine about practical jokes.