Magazine Cover (Mori)

Recently we have been working on the magazine cover. I have found this particular part of the course fairly challenging because it is very difficult to produce a cover which looks professional and realistic. The first problem which I had to overcome was the with the Main Image, I found that the pictures we had of the main character Lucy were all in clothing which was fairly dull and didn’t stand out greatly, so I cropped a picture to use just her neck and head. This, at first did not look good so I had to print it off and receive feedback from members of my class, after half an hour and conversations with many media studies students I realised that I should put her head to one side of the cover and therefore giving me far more room for more text in the form of coverlines. After putting in a Masthead and the main coverline I again encountered issues with the overall look of the magazine. So I decreased the size of the main coverline as it was taking the focus of the masthead, the magazine name, which is the most important part of the magazine, as well as adding smaller coverlines and aligning them left. To create the magazine cover I used the internet a lot looking up many different magazines and what their covers are like and then I could model different parts of my magazine on parts if them that I thought looked effective and drew my eyes to the cover e.g. I used two small captions of characters from our film, ‘Divine Intervention’ and put them into one of the corners with a big plus beside them, this implies that the magazine has something extra than you would usually get, something which no other magazine has and therefore giving the buyer the impression that it is good value for money. I also added in a bar code and a dateline to increase the professionalism of the magazine cover. All in all I am very happy with the magazine cover.
Here is the final one: