Final Magazine Cover

This is our final Magazine Cover. We have added a lot more writing, in different sizes and colours to the original lot of text that we had on our magazines.  

The background of our chosen photograph is quite busy but we decided that this works better than our pictures with a plain background because it makes it more apparent that she is in character and also adds to the sense of panic that she is portraying. Her open neck shows the vulnerability of her character and the blurriness of the image, including her face adds to the sense of movement, which promotes our film genre quite well.

We did discuss using an actress on the front cover rather than the character because of the fact that we have an interview with the actress, but on further research of other magazine covers, the majority seem to have a picture of the character. I think that we made a good choice having a character on our magazine, especially as the actress is not famous, so the picture of her as herself may not promote the film as well as an in-character shot might. However, this was a hard choice because the character is not wearing a distinctive outfit as this is a contemporary film, so we knew that if we chose to have the character on the front cover, we would have to make sure that it was obvious that it was the character and not the actress. This is why i think that the background of the shot works well as it is clear that it is a scene from the film.

I am happy with the colour scheme as it accurately reflects some of the real life film magazines. If we would have chosen a pink font it would have been more like a magazine aimed at teenagers, this is also why our font is more pointed and square, rather than a rounded font.