Magazine Cover

This is our completed magazine cover for our film trailer. We completed this idea through our ideas of the film and inspiration from other film magazine covers, especially the deconstruction I completed of 'Beverly Hills Cop'.

We wanted to first get a shot which would make the audience want to find out more about the characters. From this poster, the audience will be able to tell that Jack is a bad character through his facial expression, they will know Harry is a policeman (DC Summers) as he has handcuffed the drug Lord (Jack) and they will know that Robin (DC Curtis) is also a cop, but like mentioned in the character profiles, he does not take his job as seriously as he just assumes a pose which suggests this with him brandishing a gun in an attempt to show power. We made sure beforehand we had all of these characters in the same shot with individual roles in order to show their characters personalities and how each one differs and we feel that this shot shows their different personalities.

One thing that I took inspiration from my individual deconstruction was the information often used above the title which hypes up the magazine. For our poster, the phrase: "The Best In Entertainment News". This lures the audience in as they will want to look at a magazine which claims to be the best in their field and the audience will want to see what this magazine offers over other rival magazines to make it 'the best in entertainment news'. If a magazine did not air a confident approach, the audience would think it was ordinary and not want to read on.

Another feature that I took from my deconstruction was making the main article title bright and stand out in order for the audience to be drawn to it. We made the title bright red because of influences from other action films in the 1980s era. They mainly used this colour and an example of this is on my deconstruction. The title normally along with the picture grabs the audiences attention first and it needs to be catchy and standing out from the other elements of the cover. The colour of red also relates to the trailer and the gun brandished by DC Curtis towards the Drug Lord as blood is represented and is used in the trailer when Billy shoots Toby.

For all successful magazine covers, a strong magazine title is effective as it must entertain and inform the audience. The title of 'Action' is a very strong word which grabs the audience's attention. We also wanted the title to resemble our trailer and our genre and this phrase resembles both of these. The way that the font is used with 'Action' strengthens it even more as it is typical of what 'action' represents. I feel that the use of a sharp and eye-catching font would make the audience want to read on about the main film and others in the main magazine.

We chose a certain location for this scene because we felt this was the best place to capture the overall mood of the piece as well as involving the main characters that play the biggest influence in the trailer. As DC Summers is the serious, hard-working cop, he would be the one arresting the Drug Lord, the Drug Lord would therefore be unhappy and angry and this is shown. The picture of DC Curtis also shows that he helped with the capture, but he is less serious and hard-working with his relaxed stature and a gun pointing at the Drug Lord suggesting he thrives on power. We also felt that the most likely place that an arrest would take place would be down an alleyway and as in the trailer we are searching for the Drug Lord at this specific location, we felt it would be silly to go elsewhere.

The way in which prizes are offered on the main magazine cover entices readers as well. This was a main feature of all magazine covers that we researched and offers of expensive and valuable items make the audience think it is a magazine of high quality and has the money to be able to pay out big money for people reading the magazine. If the magazine didn't receive any revenue, then they wouldn't be able to afford to pay for items such as an Ipad.

Interviews with the biggest film stars shown on our front cover was inspired from other magazine covers and we felt was an important thing to incorporate as if top stars are appearing and accepting interviews for our magazine, then the audience and particularly the fans of these film stars will want to read and buy the magazine as they will want to find out what they have said.

Altogether, the magazine deconstructions that the group did and other magazine covers that we researched have had a huge effect on this cover and we feel we have added and developed the poster to a higher standard and that people will be drawn to and want to read the magazine.