Research

For my magazine front cover I looked at 2 of the most popular movie magazines in the world, total film, and empire magazine. I did this so that I could establish some of the conventions they use and see whether i could pick up some ideas.

I liked the look of this poster because the layout design was both simple and effective. The magazine uses a close up image of the character, which is what I'm intending to use for my cover. Some of the conventions that I can see is that the color scheme is consistent. The cover uses predominantly grey and white. However the font sizes and types do not remain consistent, but crucially they are all of a similar size so that the differences in font size are not too distracting.

Here's another example of how a close up image of a character can be effective because it makes the poster stand out more. I think this would be a good idea to replicate this in my poster because I intend to use the villain of my trailer and so I want the magazine cover to be as imposing as possible. I also like the use of a red and white colors which I think will work well with my poster because the trailer contains blood in it, and so it will foreshadow to the target audience who are buying the magazine that the movie is going to be part of the horror genre.




I particularly  liked the layout of this because of the bottom half of the poster. Where it is offering a book within the magazine. This gave me the idea to possibly to something similar but instead of offering a book I would use it to advertise my film's teaser poster.