Final magazine front cover

This is my final magazine front cover feature advertising the horror film 'Flat 39' as part of my promotion package:



I decided to follow typical conventions of a magazine front cover featuring a film such as a dominant mid shot image partly placed over the mast head 'total film', dark colours, the dominance of the colour red, similar to on the poster so a sense of branding is created. Also, I included advertisements for different features in the magazine such as 'previews and reviews' and 'top 100 horror movies' This is to entice the audience and it follows conventions of a magazine front cover. I also included conventions such as a barcode, a sense of informality suggested through the exclamation marks and a unique selling point 'on set with the cast and crew of Flat 39!' I also created a sense of branding through having the same font 'Flat 39' as I did on the poster so this is recognisable to the audience and again, creates a sense of branding. I also decided to include a convention of 'total film' magazine by including top line typography of films that are to be released at a similar time to this edition of the 'total film' magazine, so advertising is constant on this magazine front cover, not only my film 'Flat 39' but others also, so that the audience are attracted by the abundance of films.