Magazine Cover Drafts..

This is our our magazine cover drafts, we chose to display only our female character on the front as you tend to only see the main character on film magazines. We chose to portray her as a pretty young girl with a plain background to make her stand out. After getting feedback from our peers, we realised that this particular layout is mostly seen on the front of fashion and teen magazines. We therefore decided to take some more photos where we focused on choosing a specific background. Also, the red and black colour scheme doesn't sit comfortably with the consistency of our teaser trailer and poster as we have used pink and orange on them. We have decided to take another picture of our main character in a more relaxed environment and use an real background instead of a block colour to portray a more film magazine feel to the front cover. We will also use more compatible colours on our texts to keep consistency with our other promotion products. After doing some more research on film magazine covers, we noticed that there wasn't always just one font used on the page, so we decided to try out different fonts on our magazine cover, this made it more realistic. We also added more story lines on our front page to add to the real magazine effect.We encountered problems when the image seemed to be stretched, we decided to add a grey advertisement block at the top and bottom of the magazine cover, this improved the quality of the image as we didn' have to stretch it. We included the obvious elements of a magazine like the date, bar code and issue number, this gave it more authenticity.