Ancillary task- Magazine

For my ancillary task I had to create a magazine cover for my film trailer which featured the film advertisement. When researching other trailer advertisements and magazines, I realised that most of them featured either close up's or full body long shots of characters who were staring in the film. All magazines In recent society are very hyper real and create a sense of escapism. The masthead and picture on the magazine has to be the most important thing as it is the first thing that the audience will see when approaching the magazine. I think that the picture used represents the film trailer very well and would promote my trailer to a target audience that may not even watch horror films.

I noticed that film magazines like 'Empire' used a lot of close-up angles as there main image. Obviously this was to show of the actors/actress' who were staring in the film and to reveal a bit about their persona or character in the film. They were extremely eye catching and had to be as a way of advertising the film. The 'Masthead' Empire was always in a bold capital serif font. This was to illustrate the importance of the name, when I think of empire I think of a nation of strong people, and obviously the magazine is trying to portray that the films are the best you can get. The font colour choice seems to be in a bold red which to my initial thought creates a sense of glamour and a sort of Hollywood esque feel; after all these movies that are featured are big budget films created in Hollywood so the directors and producers obviously want to portray it in a glamorous way. This also leads me to conclude that this is what directors think audience want, an escapism from real life everything is pixel perfect and people like this HD feel to a character it makes them attracted to learn more about the character and the story line, so when you see the magazine you think wow, that looks amazing. The Empire magazine looks hyper real and this is insinuating this is what the film will be like. Furthermore the Empire Magazine varies with how much text it will put on the front cover, some covers have a lot of text whereas others are completely blank with the picture and only minimal text. The magazine tries to capture the films best portrayal for example sometimes one picture can speak many words. I feel as if these magazines are amazing works of art and are a credit to the film industry. It makes me as a fan want to go see every film on the cover even if I am not a fan of the genre e.g. Sci Fi.

 

Below is the final magazine cover for our film trailer. We have called it 'Evolve' as we believe the way we have evolved the magazine from the first copy of production to its brilliant final piece.