The construction of the magazine front cover

For my magazine front cover feature I used the programme 'paint.net' to manipulate the photograph, add a title 'total film' and manipulate fonts, images and shapes in accordance to what I was aiming to achieve with the layout.

This is the photograph that I am going to use for my magazine front cover feature, as I need to ensure that there is a sense of branding across the ancillary products and the teaser trailer the image is of the young female protagonist (which is also evident on the poster and within the teaser trailer) and accompanied with the title 'flat 39' the film is constantly advertised and the genre reinforced. The only thing I had to ensure with this photograph was that it had higher key lighting so that the audience could easily recognise this female character.



These are some of the photographs I am going to include on my magazine front cover so that the audience is enticed by behind the scene action and interviews and 'never before seen footage' of set and location:







Looking back at my mock up of the magazine front cover feature I must ensure that I place the appropriate graphology/typography in the right place so that it appears as though it is a genuine magazine front cover feature with the appropriate conventions of a horror genre poster including an element of darkness, set/location indicators and traditional conventions such as other features in the magazine '100 greatest horror movies' and a barcode. A magazine front cover feature must include an element of informality such as colloquial language/ideas 'See what's inside!' so that the audience are enticed by this slight familiarity.


Above is a mock up I constructed on 'paint' so that I can establish where typography/graphology is going to be placed. I will refer back to this when constructing my final magazine front cover feature on 'paint.net'. I have decided that I am to include a section of 'this month's movies' so that the audience are enticed and I am also to include a 'review and preview' section so that the audience are again, enticed by other features in the magazine as well as my film 'Flat 39'

Below are some screen shots of me working on paint.net to construct my magazine front cover


I used the tools on 'paint.net' to make the backrounds of the image of the young female and the 'flat 39' title invisible so that I could place them as a seperate layer of graphology on my magazine front cover feature created on microsoft word


This is a screen shot of me placing the various layers of graphology on my magazine front cover feature for desired effect. As a dominant image of somebody looking at the camera over the 'total film' mast head is a convention of a magazine front cover I had to ensure that I included this. Microsoft word allowed me to move images around with ease and create the magazine layered effect whilst paint.net allowed me to get rid of backgrounds that I did not want.


This is my first draft of my magazine front cover feature: