Extra Credit Assignment

Rashida Gilmore
Extra Credit
On March 3, 2010, I attended an on-campus event discussing the San Francisco Panorama. The Panorama is a newspaper that was discovered in San Francisco, Ca, by three young gentlemen by the names of Justin, Byron, and Chris. When these three men began working on the Panorama they were equipped with no experience at all. Allowing themselves to learn and grow to become the entrepreneur’s they are today. With creativity, time, and effort they were able to create 320 pages of original content, 112 page broadcast (printed in full color), 112 page magazine, a 96 page book section, and pull out posters.

Neither one of the guys had prior experience, which is why this magazine company is so unique. Being able to create such a huge successful magazine shows how determined they were and still are. Being able to fit all types of lifestyles into a magazine was a wonderful idea. Not only can people read this magazine and read about what’s going on in the world , they can also find leisure when they purchase this very different type if newspaper. Everyone, especially I, love to do crossword puzzles, or read funny comics, see the latest fashion, get the latest news on sports, or even learn new recipes, which can eventually lead up to more. What makes this magazine so much better than other magazine companies is that they have very large print, and very big photographs to make everything that much clearer.

These creative workers don’t work in big offices, but they use the space they can, to come up with many ideas to broadcast over their paper. They use “Big white boards”, “Long tables” and manage from there on. They knew they wanted something, so they worked hard to get it. When their newspaper was first published they said, “We were so excited, we had t-shirts made, took thousands of pictures, because we finally accomplished something we worked so hard on”. “Seeing our newspaper out on the stands was amazing, on the top self there it stood”. Creativity will take you far in life and I personally think that it was a wonderful presentation on reimaging the future of media.