AICE Media Studies AS- Brasgalla, N

  Over the past few days I have been continually reaching out to  lower-level  NBA players and their agents but have not received any responses that I may be able to use as subject for my interview for my feature article.  I am  still confident in my plan to find someone to interview and I still have time before I fall behind in this process. I maintain my plan of trying to reach out to members of my favorite podcasts and other content creato rs that may be able to provide information and fresh perspectives on the league’s cultural influence, but if my efforts are  unsuccessful,  I will have to go with the suggested alternate plan of expanding my magazine to  the cultural influence of rappers and football players, among other occupations. I will still try to reach out to big name players as well as others because there could still be a possibility that  I score an interview with a box office player, another word for being highly marketable . ...

     With the  new schedule, I must speed up the process of planning an interview with an NBA-involved individual . The possible subjects of my interview include players, staff members or agents. Ideally the subject of my interview is someone who can elaborate on the cultural influence of their clothing  line or shoe deal, as well as being educated on the high points of the league’s cultural influence in the past. Players that could elaborate on the influence of footwear could include  PJ Tucker or Shai Gilgeous-Alexander, or players who are calibrated more towards clothing in their influence, like Russell Westbrook or Kyle Kuzma.  Big names in the league like this are hard to access so I will need to reach out to players in the G - league or D - league if this is the route I take.  Another group I am interested in interviewing are the members of a podcast I regularly listen to, titled Through the Wire, featuring knowledgeable basketball analysts ...

  To begin with, the  storyboarding process was a large component in realizing the vision of the magazine I am trying to create. The challenging aspect of the storyboard was the visuals, deciding which colors will match best with the conten t, in addition to deciding on a masthead and font for the feature article. I enjoyed how it helped me advance my concept to possibly expanding to f ootball players and rappers and beyond only basketball players, and in this way helping to develop the concept.  The articles were also very influential in advancing the content by helping to appreciate the significance of storyboarding. For example, the article about magazine storyboarding helps to emphasize the cre ative thinking aspect of storyboarding, which applied to me by helping to think outside the box beyond my original influences, SLAM Magazine and ESPN The Magazine.  The annotation of the film storyboarding article also helped with the process even though I am not doing a f...