My AS Film Magazine Cover

In this post I will be creating a film magazine front cover featuring my teen angst product. The reason for doing this is to gain practice for when I come to create my film magazine cover as a part of my A2 course. Below is my attempt:

• The masthead of my movie magazine is 'MORE FILM'. I used this masthead as it connotes that my movie magazine offers more than others, and that it is the best with movie previews or exclusives. I used cooltext.com to make the masthead which is made of text that looks like it's being broken, giving a powerful 'groundbreaking' effect.
• On the cover I include three different movies and each of them are of different genre. 'High Expectations' is a teen angst, 'Star Wars Swede' is comedy / sci-fi and 'Night Of Fright' is a horror. This represents this magazine's intentions to offer exclusive movie previews from all different genres, meaning it is able to attract a wider target (global) audience range.
• Star power is also used with Colin Firth, Morgan Freeman and Daniel Craig and these are images I took, these are all globally known Hollywood actors that are found in a variety of different film genres, meaning that this magazine is again attracting a wider global audience. 
• I have promoted the importance of High Expectations by making the image of the girls very large, and the image of the lockers is layered over the masthead which connotes it's importance and high quality of the film.
• I used capitalisation for my masthead and for the titles of all of the films I included on the magazine cover. This connotes the importance of the key information, and the text that will appeal most to the audience, hence why it is in capitals to make the text more noticeable. I also used capitalisation for 'INTERVIEWS WITH COLIN FIRTH, MORGAN FREEMAN AND DANIEL CRAIG' as for most audiences, they would be the main attraction of this magazine as they are globally recognised Hollywood actors. Capitalisation was also used with 'SPECIAL MOVIE PREVIEW AND INTERVIEWS INSIDE' for displaying the inclusion of High Expectations which again connotes it'simportance.
• I uncluded a barcode on the top right of the maagzine cover and a price of £2.99 which is roughly a similar price to most movie magazines availible in England, if not a little cheaper, which will also ppeal to the audience as they're getting more for their money.
•  I created a strip that looks similar to a movie reel. As we're only aloud to use our own images, I had to create this movie reel using text boxes on photoshop and then filling them with the colours to make a film reel image. I did this as I thought it would be useful to include the main images of the things I am including in each of the white boxes in the reel. Also, the film reel is obviously something else on the magazine that represents it is a movie magazine and this is important for audience recognition.
• The target audience for my magazine would be 13-21 year old male and females. This is connoted with the variety of movie genres i.e. teen angst, comedy and horror (which are the three most popular genres with this age range). The characters displayed are both male and female and therefore there is no specific gender audience that I want to appeal to.