Film Plus Magazine- Final Product
The second image shown below is my Film Magazine, ‘Film Plus’. Again, a lot of attention has gone into designing and creating my magazine cover. I used another image from the photo shoot which I undertook as part of my coursework production, collecting a range of images from characters from my film trailer in a church graveyard at night-time. This image, very similar to the one used in my Film Poster shows three of the characters from my film, The Cure with blood splattered on them, surrounding a large grave in a graveyard. The reason for using an image which is very similar to the Film Poster is to ensure that a consistent house style is created, as well as creating a product identity which the audience can relate to, i.e. as soon as they see an image like the ones on my poster and magazine, they can relate directly to The Cure film. The image on my magazine cover uses a range of contrasting colours again, with the dark browns, blacks and greens in the background of the photo contrasting with the skin tone, pinks, reds and blues in front of these darker colours. Not only do images in the photograph itself contrast, but also does the text overlaying the image. The bright red used for the title of the magazine and the two sub headings, and the white text contrast very effectively with the overall dull tone of the background image. Again the use of reds is used to connate death, blood and violence, and the whites used simply to add to the range of colours and contrasting effects on the cover as a whole. The cover contains all the typical conventions of an existing film magazine, including the name, price, issue number, date, a main article headline, barcode, website address and other smaller article headlines, and by using and developing the conventions I found during my research into existing film magazines I was able to create a professional looking, high quality Film Magazine front cover.
