Magazine Choice

 

Above you can see the final draft of our magazine cover. For inspiration we looked at magazine such as total film, and ...... , this helped us make sure our cover looked authentic and professional. Aspects that we focused on were the title, logo, colour scheme, and font styles.

We wanted to use a picture from our trailer for the front cover of our magazine, as we had with our poster, to tie them all together. Unfortunately due to the low resolution of our camera we could not find a suitable image of one of our characters. Instead we took one of our characters and re-created her using make-up to look as if she had been lost in the forest, tortured with fear. We did her make up as if she had been crying and marked her face with what looked like mud and dirt. We used are female character as she is stereotypically more vulnerable and we wanted a main character on the front cover of the magazine, conveying the genre of our film. We think the image successfully puts this across, however we would of liked a darker background, to over come this and give it a more eerie effect we changed the image into back and white, creating a sense of mystery.

I particularly liked are use of a blue and white colour scheme, which we picked up on, in our research stage, we also created features like a script writers competition. As well as a stamp showing that this particular issue is all about horror, directly corresponding with our film and it's genre. I beleive the advertising aspects help make are magazine look more realistic.

Ideally i would of liked to take an image from our trailer for our magazine, but am pleased with the font, layout, colour scheme and wording of our magazine. The only change i would make, would be to include a barcode and price stamp if our magazine was to be professionally sold.

Magazine Analysis

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.