Magazine Feature

MY FINAL MAGAZINE FEATURE

This is my final magazine feature front cover. To create the merged image that is the focal point of the cover I selected and cut three different images of my characters and used the smudge tool to distort the images. After this I used the eraser set with no hard lines to blend the image into the background, therefore creating the ghostly illusion of the morphed figures emerging from the woods. I later added the text in complementing fonts to complete the final authenticity of the appearance.

This was the first draft of my final magazine. After evaluating the overall composition of the piece I decided that in order to give the front cover a more authentic appearance I added more cover stories and changed the 'HORROR SPECIAL' into black with a light glow outline rather than the simple red from before. I felt this helped the issue title stand out more from the rest of the cover stories, highlighting it as separate to the stories and part of the magazine title.

EXAMPLE MAGAZINE FEATURES

- EMPIRE MAGAZINE

Here i have two examples of different labels of film magazines, both of which showing a cover feature of the same film. However, both Empire and Total Film have different layout styles, each consisting of similarities ad differences in key features.

In Empire Magazine they have featured only three or four cover stories and added a puff at the bottom of the page briefly describing other stories of interest. As for the main cover story, the film title is in the largest font and placed almost directly in the middle of the page causing it to be - literally - the center of attention. The colour scheme consists of mainly reds, whites and blacks within the font, giving it a distinctive style which will be recognisably to their average audience. With the magazine title, as the brand of magazine is so well known they can afford to cover up a section of it with the focal image as it will still be recognisable to the consumer.

- TOTAL FILM MAGAZINE

In Total Film Magazine the layout is similar to Empire in its choice of presenting a small number of only four main stories on the cover though differs in layout style with how the brief additional attraction is shown in the skyline above the masthead partnered with images to establish the most interesting parts. The key feature which run throughout are: the presence of a small collection of three or four cover stories, a focal image which covers a small part of the magazine title (masthead), a briefly added additional attraction to lure the consumer into buying the magazine.