Magazine - Creating Film Magazine Front Cover

Creating Film Magazine Front Cover

The first step in the process of creating the film magazine cover was looking at codes and conventions of a magazine front cover. 

Tinika and I looked into research and found the main codes and conventions of a magazine front cover were: buzz words, a central image, a masterhead, anchorage text, banner, barcode, date, issue, price and further images.

The first thing we decided to do was create a few masterheads to see which one would look the best/we would prefer.

After creating mastheads, we decided that we would put a template together of what would be an ideal front cover for our film magazine. This would include some of the key features. We wanted to do this so we had a little bit of time to edit things we didn't like and add other things we had forgotten about.

We then received feedback from our media teacher about the layout and masterhead.

She told us the masterhead needs to change, the bar code and price need to move and buzzwords needed to be added.

Due to this, Tinika and I spent a lot more time editing the magazine and researching its codes and conventions. We used my previous knowledge of doing GCSE Media Studies and the fact I spent a year studying and annotating them to our advantage. 

Around the same time we received the feedback, I came across an editing website that allowed us to create pieces of work such as posters and magazine covers called Canva. 

As a result, mine and Tinika's magazine cover began to improve drastically. We made sure we responded to all the feedback given to us by our teacher and added some more colours to make buzz words stand out even more.

After we added all the features of a magazine cover and finally got an image for our film magazine, we decided to play around with the layout and a few of the subheadings we had scattered around the magazine. 

We decided we didn't like the look of the box around 'mega movie marathon.' We decided to chance this and the colour of our sticker as it wasn't eye catching enough for our audience to take it off the shelf. 

This is our magazine front cover that we are about to show to our class and teacher for feedback today and hope we don't have to make too may adjustments.