magazine front cover stage 1

This is the first part of our magazine front cover we decided to use the codes and conventions of one of the magazine covers we analysed about 'Sex and the City', including the colours red, black and white.

We wanted to make it quite simple with a white background to make the writing and the picture stand out. We are going to put a main picture under the headline to show a scene from the 'exclusive silent movie'.

We plan to add in another picture at the bottom to show the characters private life to make it seem more realistic, and give the readers what they want to hear. We will also put smaller font at the bottom around both the pictures to show we are including other stories inside the magazine, so that the readers will want to buy and read the rest.

Poster completed

We have now added in the '20th century fox' logo which again was one of the features of a poster we analysed. We are not sure however if this is how we are going to leave it as it does not blend in as well as we may have hoped because of the background colour.

We are thinking of cutting out the background however this may not work because of the white which we want to keep, may be deleted instead of the black but we will experiment and then perhaps make some more changes.

Poster with image, title and 'starring'

This is our poster almost completed, we have now added the main characters, and co-stars into the bottom left hand corner in the same text, font and colour as the title.

We used some of the conventions used on the posters we analysed previously such as the size of the font for each name depending on how important each character is i.e the father and daughter (main characters) are in the biggest letters to stand out the most, and the first names written as they are in the picture on the poster so it is clear who they are.

The picture on our poster gives quite a clear indication of what the film is about, especially after you have seen the trailer as well. We are going to present our poster in an old style like one of the posters we analysed, however because it is being made in the modern day we will also include features that would be used in modern day posters also.

Poster just with image and title

This is our poster, with the main image we are using, we have cropped and fitted the image to the correct size of the page on publisher and we have added in our title in the font that we said we would use. As you can see, we have changed the place of the title and it is no longer in the centre as our old template shows this is as said before, so that we do not block out the little girl in the image.

Also as you can see, we have changed the image to black and white as this is a black and white silent movie. We did have to take into consideration that we are creating this nowdays however basing it on many years ago, however, this poster, is all about promoting our film, therefore, we do not need to take many modern day features into account. Whereas, with the magazine front cover which will feature our film, we will need to take into account modern day magazine code and conventions through the rest of the cover, however, older percievements of our film will be shown in the places where our film is being promoted.

Different fonts for our title on our poster

These are the four different options that we have to choose from for our title for our poster. We wanted an old style italic look and we used the colour red to signify dangerand to stand out from the back ground. We did like the bottom of the choices however this is hard to read and we feel that the top choice will be most appropraite and is an old style font.

Changes to our poster

In order to create our poster, we went on Microsoft Office Publisher, to begin with we entered the correct picture of the father and daughter, showing a close side profile of the Father and a long shot of the daughter, we got this effect through the use of a long garden and having the daughter sitting on the floor whilst the father was close to the camera sitting on a chair. We then stretched and cropped the photo to the write size of the A4 page. 

We had to change the way our title was situated on the page of our initial layout as when cropping the picture we saw that if we had the title of the film in the middle of the page we would cover part of the daughter, therefore we have decided to change the order around a little and have the title at the top of the page.

Plan from now on

Now that we have finished our trailer, out plan from now on is to begin and complete the poster advertising our film, realistically we are giving ourselves one week to complete this before moving onto the magazine front cover which will take a longer time. As you can see from our older posts we have scanned in a rough template of what our poster and magazine front cover will look like and we have analysed posters and magazines from different time periods to give us ideas.