Robbie Dale

My Magazine Cover – A2 Pre - Feedback

This is my magazine cover,

which advertises my film,

Reapers and while I was

creating it I kept in mind the

codes and conventions of a

real film magazine and

followed them.

When I analysed two Empire

magazine covers I noticed the

amount of information the display.

This information was shown through

two formats; pictures or text.

Therefore by conforming with

Empire magazine’s format I included

information in these two method.

While my magazine focuses on my

film Reapers, I decided to promote

other movies to attract my target

audience, if I focused on only one

film readers may not be as

compelled to buy the magazine.

I decided that my main image should

follow the stylistic design my Film

Poster took and, therefore carried

over the danse macabre design to

show a sense of continuity.

Modern film magazines usually have

one main image on the front cover

as a focusing point, which would

grab the audiences attention. I to

then add a secondary image to fill

some of the negative space left, this

allowed me to create a stronger

headline for my Reapers magazine.

I stuck to convention with my plain

background as in the type of genre

I am focusing on the Magazine

usually tend to use a plain

background to prevent the

attention of the reader from

wandering, as most thriller focus

on the storyline and character

development.

The layout was another factor in which I followed the codes and conventions of film magazines. I didn't think designing a layout drastically different from Empire would be sensible as its basic layout design can be seen in most other film magazines.

The plus section is common practice on film magazines and the position of the figure is conventional; over the image but not taking away any of the effect it has on the reader.

My magazine cover contains a small

strip along the bottom to highlight the text within. This idea has been used by other magazine and I think adds a not only a sense of professionalism but also gives the magazine cover just that extra bit of colour to prevent it from seeming dull.