My Magazine Front Cover.

This is the Magazine Front Cover I have constructed to feature my social realist film ''Bound''.

I opted to feature my film in a magazine which combined film and technology.  As a reference for my layout and style, I looked at the aesthetics of Film, Technology and even Music magazines such as Total Film, Q, Android Magazine and Empire. However, my inspiration to take on a more ''vintage'' aesthetic came from my desire to use Film Noir style for my trailer. I wanted to bring this theme into my other media products and so I felt that a minimalist approach to my magazine would be more pleasing to the eye.

Because I decided to combine technology in my magazine, although ''Rush'' is first and foremost a film magazine, in the form of articles about the latest in xbox and playstation, I had more variety for my choice of feature articles which worked in my favour as my image left a lot of space for me to work with. I combined all the usual forms and conventions of a magazine cover, including a; masthead, strap line, selling line and features. These are essential to create a realistic magazine cover.

I chose to compose this image in this way as I felt that it created a silhouette of my male model, keeping the idea I wanted that this could be anyone. I chose for Jodie to be in the fore-ground as it clearly shows her emotion and innocence which I thought looked effective with my trailer themes. I chose to use the image as the background as I felt that it would be easier to construct text around the image with the monochromatic colour-scheme. 

To produce my magazine, I used a publishing software called ''Scribus''. This software enabled me to create shapes, runners and shadows to create an authentic front cover. 

 

 

I began constructing my magazine front cover by adding the mast-head, selling and strap lines. This gave me something to work around when it came to adding my image and feature articles.

 

I wasn't able to obtain more screen-shots, however after adding my image as my background I added the feature articles in a way in which they looked cohesive with this image. By this I mean I posititoned and spaces the articles around the silhouette of Annie, the main woman in the photograph.

Aware of typical forms and conventions, I constructed a barcode with an online generator named  - http://www.barcode-generator.org/.