Making My Magzine - Coverlines and Plugs

When creating my magazine, to create a conventional look for the cover, I decided that it would be wise for me to add plugs and coverlines onto the cover. 

To begin with I knew that I needed to include plugs of other films on the cover. I did this because it follows convention of most mainstream film magazines. To begin with I thought that I wanted to keep the cover bare, with only a few plugs and a coverline for the main story of my own film. I did this by adding the names of three films on the bottom. I chose a font that was quite plain as I thought that it would not draw too much attention, not being the main portion of the page. 

My main coverline 'Izzy Vince Exclusive: Interview with star of DreamDance' is placed on the bottom left of the page, this is because there was a large space there and the page needed to be balanced. I chose to put the coverlines in a dark blue, as I thought that the colour was bright and contrasted well with the brown colour in the masthead.

To make it stand out from the page, and give it body, I decided to add some effects to the text, including a bevel to both of the title words. I did this by using the effects tool on photoshop and playing around with different features that made the text look the best. These effects made the text stand out from the page, and would draw the eye of the reader, or person walking past the magazine, hopefully drawing in a wider range of audience. 

To make the page feel less bare, and look like your average film magazine cover. I decided to add a few more coverlines to do with other stories within the magazine. I chose to add a story on the right hand side of the page to balance the page out, I also chose to add one on the left upper hand corner. With these two coverlines, places where they are I needed to make the white font stand out; to do this I chose to put a blue box behind the writing. I then added the description, in the same font ass the other plugs lower down on the page. 

To complete the look of these coverlines, I thought that we still needed to darken the background to make it stand out for the reader. To do this I decided to use the photoshop effects menu which is included. I chose a few different options and decided that the one that gave me the darkened effect was the drop shadow tool. This is because it only places the shadow on the words that I wanted and not in a big block. I could also when using the effect, control how much spread the shadow had and how dark it would look. I altered these, giving it a larger spread but with a higher opacity, meaning that the shadow was very gradual. 

These were the completed coverlines on my magazine, and with these additions the final magazine front cover was created.