Film Magazine Front Covers

This was my first draft of my magazine front cover. I stuck to the known forms and conventions of film magazines with the use of my house style being four different colours. I had not placed the cover line on this draft because ...  Another comment I had was about the photo I had and that the character should be more serious because it creates mystery and adds to the themes in the film. 

After the comments about the photo I had in my first draft I took another photo of my character looking more serious. In this draft I added a plug to tell the reader what else is going to be in the magazine. After changing the image I also changed the colour of 'world exclusive' because I had changed photo so there was more room at the top of the page, also so it stood out more on page.

This was my third draft of my magazine front cover, I decided to move the plug I had added in an earlier draft so the text aligned on the side of the page, so it didn't cover as much of the image as before. I used conventions from magazines I analysed such as Empire and Total Film who on some covers align the text from the line of the page. 

This is my final magazine front cover after all of the comments I had been given throughout the process. I analysed various magazine front covers to look at the codes and conventions for it to see if I wanted to follow the conventions or go against them. In this draft I decided to change the colour of the text I have put at the side of the page because even though it stood out a lot against the hair colour and the white background, I thought there was too much red on the page. I also changed the colour of the tag line under the cover line because there was still too much red and the words started to blend into the picture and we becoming unreadable.