Magazine Cover

After researching into magazine covers, I have created two of my own. i have decided to go for a very plain cover to make the viewer focus all their attention on my film.

My first idea was to have a good/happy half and a high tension/ bad half. So what i have done is that i have taken to scenes. The first is from when the group are at the house and all is happy and well, this is the top part and of the happy birthday banner. I have put the picture in black and white except for the banner so that the colours make it look happy. The second image is from when the group of teenagers are walking through the forest and someone is watching them, this is the lower image. I have also put this scene in black and white but kept the colour on the characters and the tree as I believe them to be focus points. Then the two image are faded into each other and the 18th Birthday film logo is put onto the front. I have put the 18th part of the title in the happy side which is why it is in colours whereas the Birthday is in black as it is on the high tension/bad side. I think that the idea behind this magazine cover is very good but I'm not sure if the idea will be understood.

This is my second magazine cover idea. I have used the same images as on the first idea however I have used the writing in the happy birthday banner to create the movies title. So the lower image is in the exact same format as I believe that it looks really good. However I changed the upper image so that only the letters of birthday are in colour and then I added 18th above it so that it shows the films name. I think it looks really good however I have now lost the meaning of the two images.

 Now that I have my two ideas I will show them to a few people and see what kind of comments I get for improvements.

After showing the magazine ideas to a large amount of people from different ages however all from in the same geological area. The conclusion is that good and bad idea is not very obvious however some people understood the idea. The main negative that I received was that there needs to be more on the magazine covers, they are too plain. Which goes against what I wanted but as over 80% of my critics said that it needed extra details so I should see what its like with more. So I will now make some new magazine covers and present them to critics again.

I have now added more details to my magazine covers and will show them to some people to get some views on any improvements and which one to choose to use.

All my critics have said that the extra content has definitely helped to improve the final product. They have said that it looks like a real magazine now and that it doesn't really need any more work. The majority of the people have said that the second idea is much better and has a better horror feeling to it. They have said that the first one is just too bright and they are nor sure what the actual name of the film is.

After hearing all the views i have chosen to take the second magazine cover for my final design. I think that is suits the genre best however I wish I could have kept the bad and good break but it was hard to get the idea across.