Magazine Cover Name and Design

Magazine Name

We have to come up with a main magazine name before we can proceed onto the making of our actual magazine cover on Photoshop.
Below are some name and font ideas which we plan to use for our magazine:

Font
Clare: Looking at other fonts, we are aware that we need our title font to be big and bold so that it is eye catching and grabs the attention of our reader. We must also be aware of our target audience in terms of style and colour, as we want to make sure it is appealing to them in particular. 

Amanda: If we were targeting women, we could use a less thick, bold font, being less harsh and bold and becoming softer. Below are some influential examples:

Clare: A noticeable pattern that we have discovered from these film magazine logos is that they all seem to stick to the red, white and black colour theme. This is a clear signal in guiding our colour choice for our own magazine cover. 

Amanda: We also noticed that no other magazines (cooking, tv, music) use the colour red in their title. We want our title to include red, to symbolise to readers that it is film based.

We want to had decided to look at different fonts for each word, with the first word much smaller and in lower case and the second word a bolder, larger font and in a different colour, in a similar style to our inspirations.

Below are some examples of the fonts we like: 

Above is our finished title for our magazine cover. We kept the look very simple and remembered to include both the colours red and black to fit the stereotypical theme of a film magazine cover. The font we chose is quite trendy and appealing to our target audience because it is bold and a bit playful as opposed to just plain and boring.

Name

Clare: Since our film magazine is aimed at a younger age range, (between the ages of 12-25) we need to keep the magazine title simple yet appealing. We have discussed as a group some title ideas which we are considering and have thought of in response to the various influential pre-made and successful magazine names e.g. Empire. Most teen magazine titles only contain two words maximum, being short and snappy.

Below are a list of name ideas:

• TEEN film
• filmTASTIC
• film NOW
• more FILM

We have decided to go for the magazine title 'film NOW' which will be a teenage friendly film magazine, and have decided not to use the name 'TEEN film' or any other title using the word 'teen', otherwise it will restrict our reading audience. The word 'NOW' emphasises and urgency, and dramatic element to our film magazine.

Magazine Design

Clare: We have decided to use the idea we had previously for our main film poster of our protagonist Anna covering her face with her hands and her eyes being edited over her hands to demonstrate us "seeing through her" and from her perception. This idea was influenced by the photographer and artist named Giuseppe Mastromatteo who I am also studying for my Photography A-Level and have therefore gained the inspiration from this other brief I am focusing on which was really beneficial for our group.

Clare: Above is a drawing that I did of our magazine design. It includes the main title of the magazine at the header 'filmNOW'. It then includes the price and date in smaller sized font below it, so that the viewer is drawn to the cover before they notice how much they are required to pay. The main illustration is centred in the middle of the cover, covering a slight area of the title. We have also made sure to include a barcode at the bottom for selling necessities. Since this is a teen film magazine, I decided to add tags such as "UK'S BEST TEEN FILM MAGAZINE" and "HOT TOPIC FILMS" to demonstrate to the reader who the target audience is (teenagers between the ages of 12-17). To appeal to our target audience, we made sure to include a free gift inside, typical of many teen magazines. The free gift includes a Hunger Games poster, which is highly favourable to teenagers in this current time as the second film has recently been released. We also tried to sell the magazine by including what is inside the magazine, including a fun film quiz, an interview with famous actor 'Aaron Johnson', reviews on the latest films and top film soundtracks that were selected by readers of the magazine.