Draft Film magazine

After looking into several film magazines curently circulating in the UK and internationaly, i narrowed it down to the three top film magazines I liked the most. This was Empire, Sight&Sound and Total Film.  I chose these three magazines as they varied from each other but has some similarities and are my main influences for creating my own film magazine.

I created a padlet wall showing what I liked about the three magazines

 Created with Padlet

The magazine I feel will be my main inspiration is sight and sound, as I like the simplicity of the magazine and the good quality images and the easy-to-read layout, I find this magazine most attractive to look at. Howveer I do like the other magazine front covers thought I feel that because the main cover images are commonly full body shots such as Empires 'Thor' I feel this adds more focus on the 'Famous' actor portraying the chracter and the main promotion for the film. Also that the actor/s is the main selling point of the magazine rathre than the films story line or reviews. 

I chose three images i felt worked well with my ideas: 

 

I have chosen to use the last image, of the girl with her finger over her lips. As i feel this helps to portray the secrets behind teh book and the narrative of the film. I also like the lighting with the picture which helps to add enigma to the front cover image and as i want my magazine to have influences from SIght&Sound I have chosen to have a tight head shot. 

I brain stormed ideas for my Film magazine name, headline and sidebar text. 

Name

Film and media FM

Film media and TV FMT

Snap shot

Movie clip

Critique

Film reel

Project

Project F

Tag line

Don't judge a book by it's cover

What lies beneath

Don't trust a pretty face

We all have secrets..but maybe not this one

Title of the film

Animus

Side bar

+ 5 pages of film cover posters

+ a look back at 2014 best films

+ review of the 2015 oscar winners

+ interview with producer of upcoming dark comedy 'The voices'

+ chance to own tickets to opening of feature film Animus

Feature

+ a look at the new upcoming film 'animus'

+ interview with leading lady Eilis O'keefe and her ideas on the film

+ take a look behind the scenes

I used Photoshop to created my Draft film magazine  

 

I got feedback  from my draft poster, from this feedback I found that some of teh shapes especailly the barcode  in the bottom right hand corner of the  magazine. Also that the text in my side bar should  be different colours for the main articles in my magazine. 

One key point of my magazine that was pointed out was the typo within my title, I found  the feed back on my draft trailer very useful and informativewhen it came to the changes I made  on my final film magazine. 

I decided to chnage the image as I or effered the lighting in this image as if it was a spolight on  the book and the lighting of half of her face and half in shawdow. I felt this added enigma to the cover but also it is a more simplistic image not giving too much of the film away.   

Final film magazine