As an ancillary task for my media course work I am going to design a magazine front cover advertising my film.
Before i do this will look at other current film magazines to gather themes and trends that they have used to see what already works when creating film magazines.
Empire magazine 1
This front cover is good because you can see the main character of the film in a strong pose.
He is also in the middle of the page, with most of the text done around him.
The name of the magazine is also behind him, in a bold colour, and if the biggest text on the page.
It also has a clear set of colours that it is only using. (Reds, greys, blues and whites) these blues, greys and whites match the background of the picture.
The main character is also only wearing a select range of colours. (Blacks and blues).
The man i also Holding a gun, you can clearly showing his shiny watch, blood on his face and darkened areas around the eyes and has a bit of his chest showing. these are all Masculine features
Empire 2
Unlike the front cover above this one has more than one film being advertised, although there is a clear main film they are looking at. (Public enemies)
The title is again behind the main image and this time there is no blue text as on the cover again. The other text is also in red, grey, white and black.
The pose in this cover is again stern and masculine as in the one above, this roes over to all the rest of the images on the page. (Apart from the ghost buster’s image)
All the writing is around the main image and not in colours that would draw you eye away from the main image.
Empire 3
Again as is consistent with the empire magazines the title of the magazine is behind the text.
They have changed the colour scheme of the magazine to include greens and purples as they relate to the character in the main image.
There are not any other films being advertised on this page by images, although there are the small text bits in the bottom right of the page showing other films that the magazine is looking at.
The character on shot has a dramatic expression on his face, and with his body language. Again consistent with empires style.
The style of text across the middle of the page is also completely different in style to everything else on the page with text.
Empire 4
Main image on the page is of three characters all looking at the central character on the page. The middle character is staring through the sword and towards a possible target or enemy.
The title this time is in a different style to the rest of the empire magazines I have looked at.
The main text is in the middle of the page, this combined with the position of the sword draws you attention to the middle of the page.
The rest of the text is surrounding the main images on the page. There is again a consistent colour scheme in the within the whole front cover.
From these magazines I have gathered that:
*The main title is always behind the main image. This is probably because the image is more important then the text when drawing people in to buy your magazine
* They all have a consistent colour them they use throughout the entire front page. This is probably because it would be a lot less distracting then lots of random colours. This would also be good because it would link all of the magazines copies together with a colour scheme.
*They all have all of the more in-depth text and details on the side of the main image. this means that your eye is first drawn into the main image and then to the text. This works a lot better then it being the other way around.
*and finally they all have a distinct main character on the front
now i will create a mock up version of my magazine cover using what i have learnt here.
