Our Magazine

Inspiration for our magazine

Title of our Magazine Film Talk - short and to the point, tells

audiences exactly what will be inside the magazine

Film Review - Slightly longer, may be difficult to fit onto an A4 page in large font

Film - Although its shorter, it doesn’t really have a catchy feel to it and wont fill up space on the page which may make the top third of our magazine look empty or boring

Overall we feel that Film Talk is the better option because it will look better on paper and is neither too long nor too short.

Magazine Cover DraftSkyline – including issue number and date of print

Secondary Images as comic strip

Barcode

Title of our film in bubble font

Secondary text and articles

Title of magazine (Film Talk)

Why did we make these changes? Due to our audience feedback, we decided

to make some changes to our magazine cover in order to make it more original and less simplistic. We added more text and secondary articles to fill spaces around where our main image will be which would give the cover a fuller look and minimise negative space. This is a technique we saw being used numerous times throughout our research of real magazine covers (examples shown below).

Similarly, we added a comic strip with stills from our film in order to give audiences a preview into our films aesthetic. This will intrigue audiences and hopefully catch their attention. This was a dominant feature of most of the magazines we researched to make the covers more interesting and give them some depth.

Fonts For our secondary font, we

wanted to find something that was interesting yet didn’t take away from the main titles of the film. We feel that ‘Raleway’ is our best option as although it’s simplistic, it also has many variations shown to the right which could be useful in highlighting certain pieces of text such as the title of our film. We feel that the lighter ones would look better used in articles.

Colour schemes We want our magazine to stick to the three

colour rule. One colour scheme we have seen used within our research is blue, white and yellow and red, white and blue. This is something we would like to use within our own work in order to fit into the general look of film magazines . We feel these colours are appropriate as they appeal to both male and female audiences and act as neutral colours. This means that our audiences would be more likely to pick our magazine up and buy it if it were to be printed which would make our magazine more successful.