This is our drafted magazine cover on Publisher. We changed our colour scheme as when we tried the orange, green and blue it looked too girly and did not fit our target audience. We tried out many colours and finally decided on blue, yellow and white. the colour scheme now fits with the target audience and is also eye catching to attract the readers. The font for the title was called Baskerville old face, we liked this font as it looked like a typical clear font for a magazine cover. The other fonts we used was, century gothic, Bodoni MT, and Arial Black as these were all clear fonts to read quickly if you was walking past the shelves. All our titles are short pieces of text in order to get to the point of what the article is about inside e.g. Top 10 film reviews inside. We also we chose top have two related articles on our film as Grace will be our image for the cover. this shows that she is more superior than any other article in the magazine and that the main focus is La femme. We also have a win opportunity of a film poster from another film in our class, this is typical of magazine conventions as there is always a free poster to make the readers buy the magazine. We chose a black background as it makes the fonts brighter and also the image clearer once it is inputted. We put a barcode, price and date also on the magazine cover in order to follow the conventions and make the magazine realistic.

Fonts and colour schemes

Charater Name Choice

We decided to name our character 'Emma-Lou'. We wanted a double barrelled name as it makes the name more distinct and different to just Emma as it is not as interesting. I thought about the scary character Emily Rose in the excorsist and thought Emma was close giving it a scary impression already. We thought this character name would work as it is quite an innocent, little girls name showing a contrast to what she is really like.

Film Title Choice

As our film is a thriller, we wanted to fit the film title to fit the genre. We thought about 'The Unknown' as the scary character is mysterious. However we discovered that this was already a film title. i thought if we had our film title in a different language it will be harder to have an already film made with the same title. We decided to keep the title simple and not much giveaway to the film so we decided on 'the girl' in french which then read 'La Femme', this gives the film more mystery as not every potential viewer of the film will know what this title means.

Film Poster and Film Magazine Cover Drafts

Here we have drafter our Film Magazine cover. We decided a blue, orange and green themed fonts as they are bright and eyecatching to our potential readers. We have fitted the theme of the thriller genre also by having a black background, this also makes our character, 'Emma-Lou' more visable as she is dressed in white. To fit the conventions of a magazine cover we have clearly displayed the date, price, bar codes etc. We also have other headlines in our chosen colours advertising new films, paying tibute to a famous actor and also giving away a free movie poster of the lastest film. We chose the name Beyond for our magazine name as it is indicating the films in our magazine are beyond our imagination. Also it is short and easy to remember for ourpotential customers. In our research we discovered that the characters on the cover hid part of the title with their head. We have followed this convention in order to make our magazine look more realistic.

Here is our draft of what our film poster will look like. We have fitted the thriller conventions again by having a black background to make it more scary and also to make the characters more clear. We have made 'Emma-Lou look dark and mysterious in the background to make audiences wonder who this scary figure is and what she wants. We then have a bright light shining on the characters, they look happy and innocent to make the characters more vulnerable. they are also dressed in bright clothes to make them stand out and look eye catching. At the bottom of the poster in red, another eyecatching colour, is says coming soon. We have not given a specific date as it keeps the audience waiting for the release date. Our film title 'La Femme' is in white, to make this stand out at the top of the poster against the black background.