2. What I need to
consider:
• Title of Magazine.
• Title of film.
• Strap line
• Date, Issue number,
price.
• Website.
• Cover lines.
• Tagline
• Barcode
• Banner - images
3. Title of Magazine:
I have to include a magazine title on my magazine. This helps people to know what the magazine is called.
Seeing as I don’t own a real magazine company I will have to create a title. I have looked at a few film magazines
for inspiration, for each one I have looked at the typography in the sense of font style, colour and size:
-Bold lettering, part of the
film title is incorporated
into another part of the
title.
-Text is large and it is the
first thing that the readers
eyes are drawn to.
- Title is behind the
character in the Sherlock
Holmes one, could
suggest power?
Importance? in the role
being played. COMPARED
TO the one with the
characters face which is a
black and white image
which is placed under the
magazine title. This could
also suggest something
about the character.
4. My ideas:
I tried typing in words
into an online
thesaurus to see what
words would come up.
There are a few ideas
that I got from the
words.
5. Cinematics
Cinematics
Cinematics
Cinematics
Font: Charlemagne Std
Font: Lithos Pro Regular
Font: Trajan Pro 3
Font: Aharoni
Colour: Red. I chose red as it will stand out the most on my image as it is black and white.
Therefore, using red will make it eye catching whereas colours such as black and white will blend
into the image.
6. I currently have the idea of having a play on words with cinematic’s and
changing it to cinematix seeing as my film is aimed at teenagers of 15 years or
more and therefore, in the professional world, an advertisement for a film is
likely to be on a magazine whose main readers are the target audience for the
film (e.g. in this case = teenagers).
Cinematix
Cinematix
Cinematix
Cinematix
Font: Charlemagne Std
Font: Lithos Pro Regular
Font: Trajan Pro 3
Font: Aharoni
7. I had intended to use either the Charlemagne Std, Lithos Pro
Regular, Trajan Pro 3, Aharoni font but then when I got onto
Serif Draw Plus X5 I noticed that it didn’t have the fonts that I
wanted to use on there except for Aharoni.
8. How each font looks on the magazine cover:
This is what Aharoni looked like:
Bodoni MT Poster Compressed
Font I decided on in the end:
9. Why did I choose the Bodoni MT
Poster Compressed font instead
of Adharoni?
I feel that this font is more dramatic,
and will help my magazine to stand
out among other magazines.
10. Title of film:
I have to include the title of my film ‘The diagnosis’ on my magazine cover. I will have to decide on the
appropriate font and colour to make it eye catching and more appealing. I looked at some other film
magazines for inspiration:
The film titles are either in
the middle or slightly lower
than the middle in order to
catch the attention of the
reader. The colour of the font
stands out despite being on
top of the main image.
11. My decision
The Diagnosis
The Diagnosis
The
Diagnosis
The
DiagnosisThe Diagnosis
The Diagnosis
Trajan Pro 3
Cordia New
Vani
12. Serif DrawPlus x5 doesn’t have the Trajan Pro 3 font available so I had to see
how the others looked on my magazine cover.
Vani font.
Cordia new font.
13. In the end, I decided to use the
VANI font and make it italic.
I felt that this font had the ability
to give readers an insight into the
film as it is edgy and could imply
something to readers.
This links to Roland Barthes idea
of the Symbolic Code which
looks at symbols and
connotations and meanings of
things.
14. The Date helps the buyer to see whether this is the most latest edition of the magazine. Issue number
highlights how often the magazine is issued, the higher the number, the more often it is issued. I will choose a
low number seeing as my magazine would be new on the market. Price informs the customer of how much
the magazine will cost, I have looked at a few magazines such as Empire and total film and I feel that a price
between £3-£4 will be most appropriate as they seem to be the price range that most film magazines stay
within.
Straplines are almost always used in magazine covers, it is an introductory headline
below the masthead describing the magazine. It is the selling point for that particular
magazine.
Strapline example.
Ideas:
- The worlds greatest
film magazine.
- Film magazine like no
other.
- The movie magazine
at the heart of the
action.
What I’ll put on my magazine:
Date: May 2014
Price: £3.90
Issue number: Issue 12
Straplines:
16. Most magazines include a website which allows readers to go online and gain further
information about upcoming films etc. Tagline is used to engage the interest of the
reader. Often use of words are: ‘Exclusive’ ‘Sensational’ which gives the reader the idea
that the magazine has high compliments.
18. These highlight the main articles that are inside the magazine and are often referred to as the
selling lines.
Ideas:
(left side) –
Exclusive!
Leonardo di Caprio in his new
role.
PLUS!
The latest from Ryan Reynolds.
Gossip girl drama.
Lord of the rings special effects
secrets revealed.
Cover lines.
20. Pull quotes:
On the cover lines, I will include pull quotes based on a
film that is being advertised on the magazine. Pull
quotes are enlarged quotes that are put on magazine
covers, this catches the attention of customers,
encourages them to purchase and gives them an insight
into the contents of the magazine.
Potential pull quotes: “The
Ring has awoken, it’s heard
its masters call.”
Pull quotes
This quote can be put
above the
advertisement of the
free poster inside the
magazine.
http://www.theonering.net/torwp/2012/05/08/55715-top-20-quotes-from-the-lord-of-the-rings/
I looked up popular quotes from the lord of the rings which could be included
on my magazine cover.
21.
22. • Banner - images
The Barcode on a magazine allows people to purchase a magazine, this is always on the
front of a magazine as full page advertisements are put on the back of magazines and
therefore, to avoid ‘interrupting’ the advertisement at that back that businesses pay a
high amount for, the barcode is placed at the front of the magazine.
Barcode :
23.
24. Some magazine covers have a banner at the bottom of them. Within the banner there
are images that are either related to the film being promoted or another film.
I am going to include a banner on my magazine cover, it will include images of the
settings that are visible in my trailer but also other places that I would have used to film
the entire film.
Banner:
