I have decided to take a photo of Hayley one of our main characters, (which I am using her also for my film poster to create synergy) the image will be a high angle shot looking down on her from above, with her looking scared into the camera and holding out her hand. This is an image which will tell a story rather than a simple image of a character, an element I found effective in my research. I found a similar technique on an Empire magazine as spiderman's hand is further forward than his body and it creates an attention catching image which looks almost 3 dimensional.
-Name of magazine (masthead):
I decided to use go for "realm" as I thought about the names of successful film magazines and obviously Empire is one of the most famous ones. I wanted to use a short snappy name similar to Empire as I felt this work so well for them, so I looked at words related to empire and came up with the masthead "realm". It has the same connotations as empire and connotes a strong powerful establishment which is what a film magazine should want to represent. This is the power that a small low budget magazine needs when competing with well known conglomerates.
-Additional photos:
I decided it would be important to also incorporate other photos onto my magazine as it will represent more than just our own film. I therefore decided I would include an action shot from our film and have it as "An interview with Sean Kaitano". This incorperates the use of star power as it has emphasis on him as an actor and will also use photo manipulation.
-Colour scheme:
I have decided to go for a black background and then use a bold orange colour from the backing on my texts. This will use the contrast between the colours to grasp the audiences attention and is an element I saw in my research of The Black Knight Rises.
-Film Strip:
My film strip will conform to typical magazine conventions and will be placed at the bottom of my magazine showing other films that will feature in the magazine. I felt it would be important to show other genres as we don't want a solely thriller based magazine as we are targeting a mass audience. Therefore I am also including the titles of 2 teen angst films in my film strip.
-Barcode and Price:
I feel it will be important to incorporate a bar code onto the front cover of my film magazine as it is something that features on the front of all magazines. However I am not going to conform to the stereotypical convention of having a price on the front cover. This is because I feel I will need to start with a lower price to compete with the large companies like Empire and I do not want to devalue the way that the magazine appears due to having a low price.
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