Magazine Front Cover Flat Plan

 

This is the magazine front cover flat plan. This flat plan illustrates where everything will go on the layout. The layout will have conventions of a magazine cover. For example the typical conventions of a magazine cover that have been included on the flat plan are: Main image, masthead, barcode, plug, slogans, colour scheme, date and price, website, cover lines/taglines, feature article, variety of fonts on the cover and sell lines.

 

The colour scheme for the magazine front cover and the film poster is black, white and red. These are typical colours that are associated with the horror genre and are mostly seen on the magazine cover and movie posters.  The masthead will help the audience know what magazine we have gone for, the masthead is usually at the top of the magazine so we have decided to put it at the top to conform to how a magazine is usually layed out. We decided to choose Empire over Total Film. The decision to choose Empire magazine was because I did some research and found that it is the biggest selling film magazines in the UK. Total Film is the second biggest selling film magazine so we decided to go with the one which was bigger meaning they'd have more of an audience. The font colours will vary between red, black and white, putting the most important texts in red to make it appeal to the audience. Barcodes are typical of a magazine cover, it's what lets the audience know that it's an actual magazine, its able to be sold. My group and I decided to have the tagline on both the magazine cover and the film poster. This isn't common to have but we wanted to put emphasis on the narrative and let the audience know that death is involved which again is a big convention for the horror genre. The colour scheme helps create a recognisable house-style. The main image will consist of Dawn giving direct address. I think the main image should be of Dawn looking directly at the camera as it would look as though Dawn is staring at the audience, as it's a horror magazine and she's covered in blood this could be more creepy. Having a variety of fonts will allow the magazine to look more interesting. The same font for the title of the film will be used on both the magazine cover and the film poster. The plugs will give more information on the cover lines being used.