Magazine cover draft

After researching into magazine covers and their conventions we decided to plan a draft of the layout we wanted for our magazine cover. As well as laying out the magazine cover we chose fonts we thought would suit out magazine and colours that would look effective and attractive. Here is the magazine draft we have created but we have not used the actual photo as we need to take it for our real magazine cover. Firstly we decided to make a new name for our magazine. As the magazine cover would be advertising a film, we realised we needed the magazine to be a movie magazine and tried to think of magazine names from this. We finally came up with the name 'Cine-mag'. I think this is a successful name as it is short and catchy but is also to the point and tells people who see the magazine that it will be about movies. After deciding on a name we had to add this to the magazine cover plan. We decided to have the title at the top of the magazine as this is conventional of all magazine covers. We also had to choose how big we wanted the title and the font and colour. We knew we wanted the title to be in a big font and that we were going to use three main colours on the magazine cover which are red, white and grey. The colours we used for the title is white because this stood out a lot on the image we used for this plan however if the white title does not stand out on the photo that we take for our real magazine cover, we may have to change the colour of the title. The photo we used is a photo we found on the internet. We only placed this photo on the magazine plan so that we could get a feel of what the magazine would look like with a photo. We included a lot of other text on the magazine cover such as the name of our actress. Having the name of the actress was important as we would include an interview with the actress if we were to make the whole magazine. It was important for us to not have too much writing on the front cover as this would overwhelm the page and less focus would be on the image. Therefore we only included some text that we felt would be important. Most of the text we have added on the front cover is in the same font. We chose this font specifically because it looks quite professional and therefore makes our magazine cover draft look more realistic to a real magazine. So that the font didnt look boring, we used different sizes and colours of the font on our draft. This makes the magazine cover look more interesting and also eye-catching. All the font on our magazine draft is quite big which we felt was important so that people could read a lot of it from a distance when looking at magazines in a shop. We also included a price on the magazine draft because we saw that most magazines we looked at during research had a price on them. As well as this we put a barcode on the draft in the right bottom corner and I feel this makes the draft look a lot more realistic. Overall I feel that this draft is quite successful however after we have taken our own photos for the cover we may have to change some of the font colours and sizes slightly.