Production: Magazine Front Cover Editing

At first we wanted to have the title for Empire magazine, we wanted to have the exact same font as the real magazine. So we went onto Paint to create it. However, when putting it on InDesign there was a white background to it that we could not get rid of, and it did not look very professional.

We changed the title to 'FILM'. We created a white and black title to make a shadow so that it would look 3D. This helps because it stands out a great deal, when it was just plain black it did not stand out and was quite unnoticeable. We added the image that we liked the best. This image has been photo shopped to get the colours to a great quality. We increased the saturation and exposure to make the colour balance perfect so that it was not a dull image.
For the main title, we are advertising the film and saying that there is an 'exclusive' this will hopefully entice the audience into wanting to read the magazine and about this film. We had at first just the font over the image, but because of her top underneath it was extremely hard to read so we decided to put a black band across, and did this with the exclusive as well, the 'behind the scenes', we felt needed to be different and have a contrast so we switched the colours around so it had a red band underneath. 

We added little bands across the bottom of the front cover, this adds something different to the cover, it makes the text stand out, if it was in front of the image it would not be as effective. The sticker with the prize will entice the audience because they will know something good is in the magazine for them. The film Twilight will also appeal to most of our target audience making it even better on the front cover.

The font is very large for the name of the film, this is to hopefully attract the audience. We included a bar code, this is important because it legitimises the magazine. We placed it at the bottom because it is not a specific part that needs to be noticed well, as opposed to the text for example. At the bands across the bottom when editing sticks out at the bottom, but when it is in overprint view it gets rid of it. 

The 'special edition' looks good against the masthead, it looks like a stamp which creates a good effect of professionalism and gives something different to the cover. We put it in gold writing because it shows the quality and makes it more special. 

We wanted to keep it simple because if it was too cluttered it would not look very good. It may appear to be quite tacky or cheap so by having it simple and quite spaced out it looks professional. 

This is our final magazine front cover.