The development of my Film Magazine

I decided to go for the same look on the front cover of my magazine as I had with my film poster, that way people could associate them with each other and it would be easily recognised. So I decided I would go for the same background as my film poster. Once the background was on I needed a name for my magazine so I went for Film Review as it's simple and makes certain that it is a film magazine, I then needed to make sure that the masthead was clearly visible so I needed a stand out colour, I decided on red because it went well with the black, the only thing was that the edges weren't bold enough and it didn't look like it stood out so I gave it a light grey border which makes it much more visible.

 

After getting the masthead to stand out I started to work on the very top of the magazine cover and I gave it a skyline, I thought of many things that I could include here and I decided to include my friends film trailer title into it, and so my skyline shows that you can get a free 'Inheritance' poster.

 

 

Once the skyline was in place I thought it was time to add my headline, the headline off my magazine cover is the title of my film therefore I imported my title in and placed it in the conventional place of where the headline goes which is about a quarter of the way up the page. I spread the headline across the whole landscape of the page to make it stand out more and make sure that it would be clear to the customer which film is being spoken about.

 



 

After I had added the headline I also decided to add some teasing content as well along the bottom so I thought just to make the writing stand out I would make sure that there was a definite black background so I added a black strip at the bottom so the white writing was made more visible. I decided that the teasing content I would add was, extra posters, interviews and competitions, I did this as because it is a film magazine this is what the customer would want to see.

 

 

Now that the majority of the layout had now been established it was now time to add the images, I added the exact same ones that were on my film poster as this is what usually happens on a film magazine when they talk about a new film, they usually just take the film poster and use that as the front cover and that is the path that I followed.

 



 

Once the images were added I thought it was time to put in what the magazine has to offer about the film, so I decided it would be an interview with the star and therefore underneath the headline I have included a quote from the star and this will intrigue the reader into wanting to read the whole article.

 

 



After the quote was put onto the front cover there were still sub-headings to add onto the magazine, the sub-headings had to apply to films as this is a film magazine and they also had to be interesting enough to entice the audience into wanting to read the articles. I also needed them to stand out so in the same way I made the masthead stand out by adding the grey border I did the same to the sub-headings so that they were easily seen.

 

 

I thought that I had finished once I had added the sub-headings but then I remembered a key convention to music magazines, and that is a barcode on the front cover, I decided that there was a nice gap to fit the barcode in the bottom right hand corner just above the teasing contents, on the barcode I added the title of the magazine, the price and also the date in which it is released.

 

 

Once the barcode was added I decided that I had finished my magazine front cover and that I had produced a magazine cover that includes many conventions and is a good copy of what a magazine cover looks like.





The development of my Film poster

As you can see in my previous post I had a choice of three fonts in which to use in my ancillary texts after I had chosen the one I wanted to use I started on my film poster, I looked at a few film poster such as:



After looking at these I got my idea on how I wanted my poster to look and I started with the layout of it, this ended up looking like this:

This shows the main conventions of a film poster as it has the title of the film in the bottom third of the poster which three of the four posters above have. It also has the text at the bottom which shows the actors, producers, director etc. It has the names of the two main characters within the film, which are the ones that will be featured on the poster. It also features a few quotes from reviews to show that the film is good and reviewers want to recommend it.The poster also shows that the film is out this fall, it comes out in the fall as it is a horror and it is more effective in this time period as it is starting to get darker and people will get more hyper reality from it.

 

I then went on to add an image and background onto it, now because my image and background are mainly black I had to change the colour of all my texts to white so that they stood out as you can see.

 

 

After adding this there was only one more image of the protagonist to go onto there and once added I put a black and white gradient onto there as the film is about a mystery creature which is stalking the protagonist so thereofre with the poster being in black and white it adds to the mystery.

 

 

This is what the poster looks like with the picture of myself added to it, as you can see the gun is pointing straight at the audience, the reference of this is to 'The Great Train Robbery' which was the first film back in 1903 in which at the end of it a man points the gun at the camera which makes it look like he is pointing it at the audience and shoots, which is like mine where the protagonist is pointing it at the audience.

 

 

When I spoke to my teacher about this poster they said they really liked it however as I was infront of Slender and I am the protagonist I should stand out more and therefore said I should try and brighten my face up more so that you can really tell i'm infront. I then went away and took his advice and did this

 

This is the exact same however I brightened my face and hair, it does make me stand out more however I feel like I may have made it to bright and ruined the image however it does bring me to the front more and make me stand out. I also felt like 'This Fall' was a bit to American to put on my British film poster so I decided I would change it to an actual date. The date I went for is 'Friday 13th September', this is because horrors are usually released between summer and autumn so I went for September which is just in-between those two seasons. The Friday 13th is because that is a date that is renown for being scary and having horror films released on that date.