magazine cover..

• We have been looking at the film magazine 'EMPIRE' and have decided to use this magazine company for our cover. Here is an example of the magazine we have looked at to get ideas for our own.

We like this image for a magazine cover as it is simple and shows some form of corruption as the black background connotates evil and emptiness whereas his stern facial expression shows to the audience what the character is like. The shadow on the right of the actors face also reflects back to the connotation of emptiness and evil. We intend to use a shadow on our image as we think that this would connotate to our audience that the women has two sides to her.

• This is an image we have captured as a rough idea to which we are going to base our magazine cover main image. We have rearranged the lighting to make the left side of the face have more of a shadow than the right. After a few attempts at this we thought that choosing a gold reflector, will help highlight the right side of the face so the left side looks more shadowed. As this is a rough copy, this is far from the standard we expect our final image to be like.

• As we intend to use EMPIRE magazine we have to make it look professional and so we also are going to use tho correct font that EMPIRE use. Here is an example of the logo.

In order to use the exact font for our title, Louis has used Photoshop and traced the example above. Here is the practise below; 


i did this my using the program adobe indesign cs3. and i used the example above to create the version below by cutting out all of the letters single handedly. then colouring them appropriately. and then grouping them all together. this isn't the final version but it is close. its just needs a few finishing touches.

• As we intend to use EMPIRE magazine, it is important we stick to the layout that they use on most of their covers. We have stuck to the price the actual magazine is and the layout of the captions introducing what is inside. The slogan for EMPIRE magazine is; The UK's No.1 Movie Magazine this the the slogan we will use on our cover. We have decided to do this as we believe that audiences always stick to the familiar and so they would choose our magazine knowing it will just be the same as many other EMPIRE film magazines.