Evaluation Question 1 : Magazine

During my research into film magazines, I noticed that regardless of the type of magazine whether it was mainstream or more niche, there were certain design and layout features that were similar across all of them. These included cover lines, masthead. date, issue number, price, banners and bar codes.

One significant difference between a mainstream magazine and a independent magazine is that mainstream magazines tended to have a dominant central image of an A list actor or a recognizable character. Independent magazines tended to have a image of a director, a lesser known actor or some artwork.  

Each of the magazines I looked at promoted current film releases and it is clear that the covers of the film magazines pray a crucial role in the promotion of upcoming new movies. Research suggested that film production companies have little control over the design and layout of film magazines who have their own house style in terms of font and design. As a result the fonts and colour schemes of my magazine are slightly different to those used in my teaser trailer and poster. I used a picture of the main actor in my teaser trailer on the front of my magazine as it is a upcoming movie at the time that my magazine would be published.  This is effective because people then know straight away when looking at my magazine that, that specific actress is going to be filming in a new movie soon even if they don't know what film she is going to be in. I also included taglines relating to  other movies that were coming out . I found this a common thing that was done when researching into magazine front covers. I also found that the mentions of different movies that were coming out around the same time was a popular thing to include on the front of film magazines so I included the name of four movies that were also coming out in Summer like my movie.