Magazine Cover Progress

This is a screen shot of us working on our magazine cover in the program serif page plus. We have been working hard to make sure every thing is in perfect postition and have been trying to make it as professional as possible at the moment.

As our film is set to 'release' on valantines day we decided to make the cover a valantines theme. This also meant we could carry on with the theme of Red and white which is prominant throughout all three of the media texts we ahve created. This gives a sense of continuity and familiarity to it, making it more likely that the audicence with recognise it.

We made the title of @ccidentally in love quite large to catch the audinces attention, and have caught the attention of Rob by writing a small feature on him. As well as this we have included a Photo film roll. This was something we had wanted to use on our website as we had great photos that we didn't want to go to waste. We ended up finding the image of the camera film on a website and were able to copy into onto our poster and adjust the sizes without a problem.

We also chose to include a the feauture of a free movie poster. This meant we could use a small picture of our poster on there, pnce again connecting our three texts and making it recognisable to the audience.

As well as this we we chose to add some writing on two other current and popular films, as a film magazine does not just focus on one film. It also keeps it up to date and interesting.

We chose the same Supreme as it's a bit of a play on the word empire. It denotes power and authority, making our magazine more likely to be taken seriously.

When chosing a picture to put on the front we had many choices as we have done two photoshoots. Two of the main contenders were:


As you can see we chose the photo on the left. This was because although the picture of them on the right is very nice and captures the essence of the film well, it has quite a few problems to it. One being the fact you can't really see much of Lucy's face. This is not wise for a magazine as the front cover is meant to really sell the poeple on it, therefore although it's a very sweet picture, it would make it more difficult for an audience to recognise her later. They are also very close to the camera and the top of the page. When putting out title at the top this could be an issue. As Lizzy say's in the post below, our magazine is not as old and established as Empire or Total film, therefore would it be wise to have their heads covering bits of our words?

The huge amount of colour on this picture would also make chosing a colour scheme difficult and whether or not it would show up on different colours.

The picture on the left how ever is perfect. The simple backgound has space around it for us to write things on in a simple colour scheme of our choice. It's also a natural and a 'real life' photo shoot, in which they are not in character. This is popular for a magazine to have it's own photo shoot with the cast if they are doing a main feature on them. As well as this the other pictures from this photo shoot fit in well with the colour scheme and look fitting when using them as small images on the front.

The large space at the top leaves us the space to establish our magazines name and theme of that month. This is important as this needs to stand out.

Overall our process of using serif page plus for this is going quite well. It enables us to move things in well and use text. However we cannot crop photos on this, which means we have to do this in other programs, this can cause issures when measuring the size of the page etc. As well as this there are a limited amount of fonts. However we have managed to fing quite a good one on it called Gill Sands Condensed, which is similar to empires, but quite different too. We like it becuase it's bold and has a similar feel to that of the font used at the bottom of film posters. This keeps the theme of movies running all the way through.

-Helena