Completed Magazine

The image above is a copy of my completed movie magazine. It follows the regular conventions of a movie magazine and it is closely connected with my film trailer and poster. This magazine is aimed at young teenagers both male and female and the actor that was chosen was Aliessha Saye as she is the main female lead in the film. It is important that I incorporated both male and female aspects to the magazine to appeal to both but still maintaining a running theme through my main project and ancillary texts which main target audience was females. The way the image was cut out on Adobe Photoshop CS3 Extended was feathered which creates a soft glow around the outline of her body. This glow was intentional and done to illuminate the fact that she is a special character within the film and almost ‘angel-like’. This image was chosen because she is looking directly into the camera, which gives the illusion that she is looking at the reader. By doing this, I have created an instant connection between the reader and the actress. She is wearing simple clothing in the picture and this is to reiterate the fact that she is a school student and can relate to teenage girl readers, by choosing not to dress her in high-fashion clothes, we are keeping within the theme of the film and our audiences.

The main colour scheme is blue, red, black and white. The reason I have chosen these exact colours is because they are neutral for both female and males, it helps appeal to both audiences within being biased to one gender. The black-tshirt that the actress is wearing on the front-cover intentionally fits in with the running colour scheme throughout the cover and shows that there is a relation to the actress being there and an article within the magazine. The main font that was used for the masthead and sub-titles within the magazine front cover is ‘Maximus BT’ and it adds drama to the cover whilst maintaining an original masthead that would be easily recognisable as LCA on a newsstand.

There are a variety of different shapes used on the front cover in order to make the magazine fun and appeal to young teenagers. The pug and arrow draw attention to important articles that will be included in the magazine that month, whilst still maintaining the running colour scheme of the cover.

A number of things appear on the cover that is a convention for all magazine whether it is film-based like mine or any other genre. These include a date, which has been included at the top of the cover clearly so audiences know exactly what issue they will be purchasing. There is also a barcode which is placed at the bottom of the screen right in the very corner, away from any important information, so not to distract from any text or the image and a price which is at the top underneath the date which is clearly visible for readers to see before buying.