Creating Our Magazine!

For our exam, we also have to create a Magazine Covers. Popular film magazine covers include Empire, Scream and Entertainment. A film magazine gives an overview of an upcoming films. They include photographs, actors interviews, facts, behind the scenes photographs and games and quizzes... The best present for a fanatic film lover.  

We took a lot of inspiration from the film company "EMPIRE". Empire is a British film magazine published monthly by Bauer Consumer Media of Hamburg based Bauer Media Group. From the first issue in July 1989, the magazine was edited by Barry McIlheney and published by Emap. Bauer purchased Emap Consumer Media in early 2008. It is the biggest selling film magazine in the United Kingdom and is also published in the United States, Australia, Turkey, Russia, Italy and Portugal. Empire organises the annual Empire Awards which were sponsored by Sony Ericsson, and from 2009 sponsored by Jameson.The awards are voted for by readers of the magazine.

The main aspect to our film that we wanted was for it to be unique. We wanted to take tips and advice from other covers, to help give a well constructed cover, but ultimately we wanted to add our own individuality to our trailer. Therefore,we decided to call our magazine "DIVERSE". Diverse means "showing a great deal of variety; very different." so this was a perfect name to call our film. The word is strong and snappy which adheres to conventions of film magazines. The word also suggests that there will be other genre's inside the magazine,which shows that we have acquired to everyone's taste, so if you're not a gigantic horror enthusiast, there is something inside there for you. 

Regarding the style of the title, we wanted to keep it as simplistic as possible, as we feel that this way, it adds a more professional approach. We decided to use capital letters for our title, as this makes it appear as bold and simple as possible. In addition, it also displays a link to "EMPIRE'S" magazine as they too, used capital letters. We want to keep the title in the centre of the page, as this is the most common convention.However, it also makes the audience's eye's be directly drawn to the page as it displays the most dominating part of the whole front cover.  We decided to keep the font colour black. Black not only adds a professional and effective colour to the title,but black also connotes negative aspects such as, mystery, evil and power which are all connotations that are found in horror films. 

For the background of our magazine, we used our own photography. As our film is based around a clown, we wanted to include the clown on our front cover.  The clown is placed in a powerful and authoritative position, with it's head tilted towards the left hand side. This gives a creepy and ominous appearance, as it gives the effect that the clown is looking directly at you/our audience. This particular shot was taken in the street, which is an everyday location that the general public are familiar with. Therefore, it creates this idea of reality, which would make our audience more on edge.  The clown is standing underneath a lamp post, which is the only bit of light that is on the page. The photograph was taken in the dark, which adds a strong contrast to the photograph. 

We used Photoshop to edit the font of our film. Photoshop is a complex software, which allowed us to play with colours, tones and saturation's. We used the "brightness and contrast" button to edit the font. This helped to make our font look more luminous so that it would stand our to our audience well. By using photoshop we were able to remove writing on the balloon from the original photograph by using the 'Clone Stamp'. The balloon had 'BEWARE' written on it and was also green, which didn't fit with our colour scheme well. In addition, we felt it made the cover look inappropriate and foolish.