Magazine Front Cover

Above is the constructed version of my magazine front cover, I tried to keep the cover as close to my previously planned flat plan as possible, yet still made some changes here and there. With the type of shot and shot distance, I didn't stick to what I had previously planned, as I found that a mid shot of my models head was not appropriate for a film magazine and did not appropriately display the thriller/horror genre I was trying to portray, this was due to the fact that it was too reminiscent of a happy chatty sort of magazine. With the actual image, I wanted an image that stood out, so with the use of photoshop I used a dark strokes filter, to give it a more roughed out appearance, which would be more appropriate to a horror film, while I used image adjustments, to leach some of the colour out of the image and brighten the little that was left. The text font was something I put into contrast with other magazines, as I found that all fonts, were reminiscent of the genre they were portraying or linked in with the image itself. So to continue on this trend, I found text that i deemed applicable to the cover on dafont.com. With the header I wanted something that stood out, so I constructed it so that it dominated the top of the page in bold red colour, which would attract the audiences attention and draw them into reading the magazine, also the colour red has negative connotations, such as blood and death which link in with my genre. The colour scheme itself was inspired by other film magazines, as they seemed to go for colours which were quite basic, yet stood out, so I tried to do a similair thing, with the use of red, blue, black and white, with the use of these colours also signifying a sense of patrionism in the reader as it is a british magazine and three of those colours are on the british flag, which my make the reader more indeared to the magazine and more likely to read it and buy it. With the layout and items on the page I wanted something that was busy yet not overbearing and also very reminescent of any other film magazine, so I set it out with special offers and incentives, so as to appear realistic and attract an audience to it, also my audience of a younger generation would probably be very endeared to the idea, as they would get more for there money.