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Hey, Candy girls!

So we are now in the final stretch of our “Making our Mini Mag” blog entries. We already had the first meeting, the behind the scenes, the celebrity shoot, the staff and fashion shoot and the features articles. Now, I’m writing about COC8’s favorite part in making the mini mag. The food trip!

COC 8 goes on a food trip.

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I hope all the Candy girls were able to rock it out during the Candy Fair in A.Venue, Makati! We COC 8 girls grabbed the opportunity to make the event a mini-reunion for us. Too bad Rubie wasn’t able to make it! :’(

Anyway, I also hope you guys were able to flip through the Council’s minimag already because we’ve put so much of our time and effort to come up with such an awesome (it is, in my opinion, AWESOME!) minimag just so we could share our experiences in working for our favorite magazine. From the fashion and beauty shoot, to the staff shoot, to the field trip, down to the celebrity shoot, we had a gazillion pictures which we all wanted to put in the magazine! Of course due to that impossibility, we put the decent ones (as mentioned by Crissy) and left the really wacky ones for us to share here in the Candy blog! Enjoy!

That blank space was for me!

Sadly, during the staff shoot I had Math and Filipino finals which I couldn’t forego. But the Candy girls were gracious enough to understand and left me a space so they could Photoshop me beside Mheems! ((: I really wanted to attend the shoot but I had to prioritize school first. Nonetheless, my Photoshopped-self is our little secret okay? Lol!

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Hey, Girls!

How are you enjoying the COC mini-mag so far?
If you flip to pages 2 and 3 you’ll see our fashion and beauty section, which I worked on with Rubie.

The Council of Cool 8 together with the models.

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You see how everything is perfectly mapped out on our mini mag and how clean and nicely clad we all look in our photos. But what exactly happened during the shoots, the laughs, and all that jazz?

1. Fan girls happened.
   It’s not everyday that you get to have a decent conversation with famous teen stars—even if the topic is limited to baking cookies and Wii. We were all trying to keep our cool, putting on a very calm façade, but deep inside we all were melting. We love Matt. He’s cute. We love Melissa too, but no, not in a romantic way. Haha! They’re both so nice! So it was pretty obvious that we inevitably found ourselves grabbing a photo opportunity (and/or autographs).

   
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Hey, girls!

This is the first in a series of blog entries on the behind-the-scenes of the Council of Cool 8 minimag. The first order of business, of course, is to introduce our little baby.

After settling the editorial positions in a COC meeting with Ate Marla, the first real step was to have our brainstorming. So last April 26, we headed out to Seattle’s Best in Bonifacio High Street – where we had a major Oops! moment when my camera fell and we all screamed! Everyone turned to look at us! Eek!

Pausing from brainstorming to take some snaps!

After deciding on our theme and the articles and spreads we would have, we got to the real work. We did all the shoots in one week—the cover shoot on May 20, the fashion & beauty and staff shoot on May 22, the hotspots “field trip” on May 24, and the celebrities shoot on May 27 (my birthday!). Whew!
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