First draft of magazine cover

During our last few media lessons we have been planning out our magazine front cover and poster. After taking a wide variety of pictures with our two main characters in, we used these to see which would fit our poster and magazine the best. We took many different pictures so that we would have a variety of images to choose from, which portrayed the right message that we wanted. In our group we researched into magazine front covers earlier on in our project, and found particular conventions that we wanted to keep, these included a eye catching title, image on the front of the main film, tag line, date, price and a house style of colours. We decided to use our own magazine title and style but keeping these key conventions which a film magazine has.
This is our first draft of our film magazine -->

We decided to call our magazine Spotlight as it is eye catching and describes what exactly our magazine is about, new films and characters in the spotlight of their audience which will buy the magazine and what the films. Our house style of colours we decided to have was red, black and blue as we wanted it to match our poster which is blue and pink but after trying these colours on our magazine it didn't fit the rest of our magazine components. The red if bold and will catch the eye of our audience, and it also suggested love and matched the red chocolate box which Lewis is holding. We used a tag line of The Peoples Choice, as we thought this suggested that this was a magazine rated highly by its audience therefore would make it more popular. For our first draft the picture we thought worked well with the image of the magazine, was off Lewis holding box of chocolates and Mercedes having the attitude that she would in the teaser trailer. It suggests to the audience that he is the sweet boy and she is the girl with the attitude and the red box suggesting he loves this girl. It doesn't give to much away but teases the audience to watch the teaser trailer and gain more information. We put in a few headlines with the main ones about our film Losing Faith and the rest about up coming films that would be released about the same time as ours which is in the summer. These include Harry Potter, Kung Fu Pander 2, and the last Pirates of the Caribbean.