After creating are trailer and a poster for it our next task was to create, a magazine cover for our film. To help us design our magazine cover we have been looking at film covers from magazines "Total Film' and 'Entertainment' to give us ideas of the stereotypical traits of what a cover usually includes and to give us inspiration for our own cover.
From analysing these magazine covers I started to realise that they all had their own colour themes weather it was red and white, blue and white or silver. White seemed to be most commonly used with a bold contrasting primary colour. These were then used together as headlines and taglines for the magazine name or cover stories. On the other hand, I particularly like the Font design the "Total Film - Mind Blowing Issue" it has a kind of mechanical effect, which keeps in theme of the background as well as it cover film. It's original design helps the cover to successfully stand out against the rest.
Most of these magazines have a headlining film which they advertise on their cover as well as having a feature on, in the inside. Rather than having a image from the film poster or a shot from the film itself, they usually have a head or mid shot of the lead role character or green lighted star, in costume. On this first cover of 'Total Film' use Leanardo Dicaprio in an effective stance that combined with the dark background intrigues the reader to his role within the film. I also think the tagline on the front of the 'Empire' cover is very effective. Combined with the image of this masked character the 'tagline behind the mask...', makes the buyer want to turn the page and read on.
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