forms and conventions of film magazine front cover and how we will use them

Another section of our project was magazine front covers, so we began to research different magazines produced by frofessional companies. we looked at Little white lies and Empire, which had created several magzine front covers, analysed them amd began developing our own ideas in creating our film magazine front cover.

Forms and conventions:

• Masthead, strap lines, reversed out cover lines, issue date and number, splashes, freebies, a main sell, a barcode and price.
• Eye catching title, (and depending on the genre) bright, colorful, bold, stands out from the background
• Persuasive language – through reviews or taglines etc to make people want to see the movie
• Promotional features like actors’ name, director, reviews etc
• Possibly use the rule of thirds as a format
• Usually one predominant image
• Important to correctly represent the genre of the movie to attract the right audience
• A quotation from the film or about the film from newspapers or critics who’ve reviewed it
How will we use these?
We as a group plan to:
• We plan to call our magazine “Screen”
• We plan to make our background colour blue as it as is a strong colour and have our title colour as black as most magazine usually have a darker background and brighter title, but we wanted to challenge these conventions
• Include a quotation as an overview of the film/ trailer
• Include other reviews included inside/ within the magazine
• We want our image to also be threatening and intimidating yet relaxed and different from the image we want to use for our film poster