Production of Magazine

• I started to think about what image I would use for my front cover as I has lots to change from. I took pictures of her during the set of filming so I thought leaving the background would suggest she’s in the middle of filming and the magazine a promote behind-the-scene action. At first I chose an image which had her body in it because when I put the sub-heading it would not get in her face and would be placed nicely with the background. However, I changed my idea of that and chose a extreme close up because the magazine will promote her and her new upcoming film. The subheading would not get in her face because as I was looking at film magazine in my research I noticed that film magazine don’t have too much sub-headings and rely a lot of the main image.

• Firstly I chose the masthead to be called ‘SHOWING’, linking it will films and cinematic. After placing it at the top, I thought that the masthead was too long and it needed to be bold and short. I also liked the idea of a 3 dimension masthead just like my AS Media: music magazine front cover. This is also when I decided to change my main image.

• I decided to choose the name ‘VIEW’ also linked with cinematic and decided to keep a white bold font. This masthead followed conventions because conventionally film magazines masthead are clear and simple. Shortening the title complimented well with the image.

• After sorting out my masthead and main image, I then started adding it text. In my research I found that the name of the film I’m promoting is highly emphasised. Because of the extreme close up of my actress, placing ‘The Watcher’ was not a good idea because it took too much of her face away. I decided to moved it at the bottom which I thought was much better however I didn’t the like font or colour

• As you can see I had trouble choosing a suitable font for my subheading. I didn’t want to choose a white font because my masthead was white too, but conventionally film magazines tends to use a lot of the white ad white was the only colour that went suitable with my magazine.

• I think the last font at the bottom advertises the genre of my film but also went well with everything else on the magazine.

• The ‘world exclusive’ had to be much bigger to emphasise the catch the reader’s eye.

• I wanted to keep my magazine simple and didn’t want to over do it because it would have intervene with her face.

• Look back to my research I saw that they have 3 subheadings so I followed the convention of having 3 subheadings.

• I liked how the red and white contrast with each other, in the results of this, it has made both text bold.

• This is my final product of my front cover, as you can see I’ve added a plug to make it look professional and I’ve added another subheading on the right hand side.

• After doing slight alteration, I am happy with my magazine