Evaluation Of My Magazine Cover

Like in my film poster, I wished to keep a mystique behind my film, and chose not to feature any of the main characters, so breaking with the norm of an Empire magazine. From my research, I found that the colour of the text varies according to the film genre, and I chose white and gold to represent 'Grace'. I did this to create a sophisticated and contrasted script, which would in turn draw the eye of potential readers, as well as representing the Drama genre.

The prospective audience members I showed the piece to easily recognised the contrast between the tree and the river as dark and light, most realising it being reminiscent of life and death. The audience also liked the colour theme, and found it to be representing a drama film, without have read the tag-lines.

Like my poster, I created my magazine using Adobe Photoshop, which allowed me remove the saturation of the tree easily - and like my poster I used DaFont for the film title, and used Corbel for the other text. I imported the 'Empire' logo from their website, and then recoloured the text to suit my theme. I used layers and masks to bring through the tree trunk, which created a background/foreground shift.

I feel that my magazine cover works well to both retain the anonymity of my film, instead focusing on symbolism to sum up aspects of the film. If I were to create it in an industrial setting, I would make the background (minus the tree and river) in a matte style, and the text in a glossed style to 'lift' them from the background and give them prominence.

In this piece I have attempted to keep with the conventions of the 'Empire' magazine, from which I gained my inpiration for my piece. I have added various ancillary articles to the front page of films which release around the same time as 'Grace' would in theory, and I have chosen one of their typical drama themes, 'Gold' and 'White'.

I am exceptionally happy with my magazine cover, as it is an attractive, yet simply mysterious summing up of 'Grace' and sets it apart from traditional Drama magazine covers.