The colour scheme for my magazine will consist of the conventional number of three main colours. White and black will be another convention of the horror genre, defining the elements of good against evil and will therefore reflect the horror genre, relating to ‘The Vanishing’. These basic connotations will balance out the magazine, as these colours will cause other components presented on the front cover to stand out and sub consciously call out to the audience. This will be further enhanced with the third colour being a red, yellow or blue, mainly another colour that attains a bright and vibrant characteristic, which will personify the magazine with life, thus attracting the target audience.
Although these three conventional colours are highlighting the main features on the cover, such as the text including the masthead and slogans, other colours can be withdrawn by the audience from the central image. The central image will be three students, dressed in their normal clothes, such as colorful t-shirts and blue/black jeans. The image will also attain one character holding a blue bag over his shoulder, emphasising the theme of a journey and expressing elements of an adventure. This will provide a subtle and unknowing display of the magazine with movement within the three characters presented on the front cover, thus stretching the dynamic nature of the magazine.
Overall, my film magazine will consist of three main colours but will complement the colours of the clothing of the three individuals, mirroring an 18 year olds dress sense. In order for me to achieve this will look back at my colour wheel, labeled under colour scheme to identify what colours work well with each other.
Thursday, 3 March 2011
Wednesday, 2 March 2011
Tuesday, 1 March 2011
Ideas : Buttons, Hooks and Teasers
Hooks, teasers and buttons are a variety of techniques that are required to draw the attention of the audience. Buttons are greatly used for this specific motive, since they are usually brightly coloured and have short statements or facts on what the magazine can offer the reader.
Examples of hooks, teasers and buttons that I am going to consider for my film magazine:
• Win a trip to London for the premier of ‘Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows’
• The return of Peter Jackson
• Win the competition and travel to New York
• Plus interviews with Jonny Deep and Sharon Stone
All of these hooks, teasers and buttons ideas help draw the audience in and are a very useful technique of attracting viewers in purchasing the magazine. For example, I would use free posters, free posters or a free CD. This will advertise the film magazine to the audience and would sell to the target market, which would increase, causing institutions to gain the maximum revenue.
Examples of hooks, teasers and buttons that I am going to consider for my film magazine:
• Win a trip to London for the premier of ‘Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows’
• The return of Peter Jackson
• Win the competition and travel to New York
• Plus interviews with Jonny Deep and Sharon Stone
All of these hooks, teasers and buttons ideas help draw the audience in and are a very useful technique of attracting viewers in purchasing the magazine. For example, I would use free posters, free posters or a free CD. This will advertise the film magazine to the audience and would sell to the target market, which would increase, causing institutions to gain the maximum revenue.
Monday, 28 February 2011
Masthead Graph
Above the results for my possible masthead choices. From questionning 15 people, aged bewteen 13-45, I have attained results showing their responces of the three mastheads.
Evaluating the graph, eight individuals selected Movie Mania as a possible masthead. Five chose Epic Film and a minimum of two people liked Film Nation.This clearly shows Movie Mania as favourite, which I personally admired as opposed to the rest. Overall, I think this is the best possible masthead, as it consists of clear and direct meaning, making it easier for the audience to acknowledge attracting a vast target audince. As a result, I will use this masthead for my magzine because of the positive feedback I received.
Sunday, 27 February 2011
Ideas for Mastheads
The mastheads for my magazine should attain a conventional meaning relating to the film industry, thus making sure I use words and phrases that are easily understood by the audience.
• Epic Film
• Movie Mania
• Film Nation
'Epic Film’ plays on key aspects in standing out to the audience. I wanted to create a huge deal of film, targeting film fanatics who can relate to the masthead. Furthermore, the ‘epic’ wordplay is vital for the success of portraying the magazine to be highly considered in purchasing. The two words also include one syllable attaining an easy and quick appeal towards the audience.
‘Movie Mania’ is a highly strong contender to becoming my film magazine name. It is straight to the point, direct and provides the audience with an easy relationship with the film magazine. This is because of the deliberate media word play, ‘Movie Mania’ harping on the technical device, alliteration. The two ‘M’s at the beginning of both words cause a sub-conscious appeal towards the audience and therefore attaining a more attractive element compared to other magazines. In further detail, the word ‘Movie’ is a simple meaning, telling exactly what the magazine is about, which is emphasised from ‘Mania’. The reason for this, ‘Mania’ connotes a large and ‘grandest stage’ perspective, thus suggesting the magazine is shouting to the target audience and becoming noticed. As a result this masthead will be considered for the name of my magazine.
The third masthead, ‘Film Nation’ is a basic meaning representing all aspects of film. This will present the audience with a greater understanding of what the magazine is all about. However, this specific masthead appears to have an older audience. This is clearly evident as most people in society are adults, exploring that key word in the masthead, ‘Nation’, which applies to a general audience.
• Epic Film
• Movie Mania
• Film Nation
'Epic Film’ plays on key aspects in standing out to the audience. I wanted to create a huge deal of film, targeting film fanatics who can relate to the masthead. Furthermore, the ‘epic’ wordplay is vital for the success of portraying the magazine to be highly considered in purchasing. The two words also include one syllable attaining an easy and quick appeal towards the audience.
‘Movie Mania’ is a highly strong contender to becoming my film magazine name. It is straight to the point, direct and provides the audience with an easy relationship with the film magazine. This is because of the deliberate media word play, ‘Movie Mania’ harping on the technical device, alliteration. The two ‘M’s at the beginning of both words cause a sub-conscious appeal towards the audience and therefore attaining a more attractive element compared to other magazines. In further detail, the word ‘Movie’ is a simple meaning, telling exactly what the magazine is about, which is emphasised from ‘Mania’. The reason for this, ‘Mania’ connotes a large and ‘grandest stage’ perspective, thus suggesting the magazine is shouting to the target audience and becoming noticed. As a result this masthead will be considered for the name of my magazine.
The third masthead, ‘Film Nation’ is a basic meaning representing all aspects of film. This will present the audience with a greater understanding of what the magazine is all about. However, this specific masthead appears to have an older audience. This is clearly evident as most people in society are adults, exploring that key word in the masthead, ‘Nation’, which applies to a general audience.
Saturday, 26 February 2011
Magazine Frot Cover Analysis
This is a prezi containing my research about film magazines that i have analysed to help me create a profesional film magzine and to develop my understanding of their conventions.
Friday, 25 February 2011
Introduction: Magazine Task
The third part of my task is to design a front cover for a film magazine featuring our film. To create my individual magazine front cover I will be using the photographs used in my film shoot. However, if I come up with other ideas that require different types of shots I will have to take new photographs that can be applied to my magazine. In order to complete this task, similarly I will have to research and analyse different magazines. I also need to design flat plans for my magazine to bring out the best construction for my magazine task, which will be developed and annotated to produce my final magazine cover attaining further elements of professionalism.
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