Mark-Up of Magazine Cover

As a group we have started planning what we want our magazine front cover to look like.  We decided that we wanted the majority of the page to be taken up with a photo of the main actress in our trailer.  We want to do this as this is a key convention of film magazine front covers and many well established providers use this convention.  We want our master head to be in a bold, recognisable, large font but not taking away too much attention from the title of the featured film, so we will attempt to have this behind the image of Leanne, this also happens to be seen a lot in film magazines.  The masterhead is also a crucial convention for a magazine front cover so we want to make ours as professional as we can.  The title of the feature film must be displayed in large font on the magazine front cover in order to grab the audiences attention and bring it to the feature film.  We decided to have this in a large black font going across the image and in the middle.  This allows the image still to be seen yet the name of the film to be very prominent.  We have added in a barcode and price as this is key for when the consumers purchase the product. 

There are various other strap lines and 'add-ons' on the magazine front cover.  The main aim of these is to draw in audiences who may not necessarily be solely interested in the feature film but to show that there are other exciting features in the magazine.  This will hopefully be an incentive for them to buy the magazine and therefore 'stumble' across "Guilty Suspects" accidentally and hopefully become interested, bringing in a wider audience. 

We understand that as the process of creating this goes on things may change however this is a template we aim to stick to as we believe it to be aesthetically pleasing and interesting for audiences as well as following the key codes and conventions of a film poster.