This is the first attempt of my poster, I have just started to look at the basic conventions of a magazine cover. I found this easy as last year I had to research into magazine cover conventions for my foundation portfolio, so therefore I have stuck to the conventions that I had learnt last year. I have followed the basic conventions of the world famous magazine ‘Empire’ this meaning therefore I have used the standard header that every empire magazine uses.
In this lesson I have started to test different images on the cover that I feel will suit the style of empire magazine. Once I found the image I wanted to use I used different effects on the picture that I felt would give a suitable feel for what I wanted, this feel was something that gave the image a weird, ‘cracky’ feel. I also tried different colours that I thought would grab the reader’s attention, I didn’t like the colours that I used in this picture because they didn’t suit the house style and therefore conveyed the wrong message about the film that I am promoting. I also tried a tag line at the top of the magazine as this is a common convention in film magazine, but once again I didn’t feel the colour was suitable.
