We wanted the title to be big and bold, as this would stand out for our target readers., also with the bold white writing on a dark background, it stood out even more.
With the title, we decided to use a typical western font, as this was the correct decision considering our film was within the western genre, also knowing that the title is exactly by a picture of the main character enables the reader to understand what the magazine cover is about. We had some small issues with jimmy’s head, as at first we could not put it over the title until we cropped it.
The use of different films congealed on a certain side of the cover is a typical magazine convention, and engages a reader to buy the magazine and read on. The use of different fonts for the films was to show how all the films have an individual identity.
The use of the sub-heading ‘world exclusive’ is another typical magazine convention, and we used this heading, as it was used often on many professional magazine covers.
Once again the use of the sub-headings are typical magazine conventions, and give the reader a slight insight into what they expect to see within the magazine.
With the picture being in the middle of the page, it enabled us to consider over conventions such as the headings, title,
barcodes and the use of font.
The use of the
barcode, is a usual convention for any magazine, and we after looking at many different magazine front covers, the majority of the
barcodes were in the bottom right hand corner of the page.
Empire is the world's leading film magazine and proved easy to find some influential front covers. I liked how the magazine always places the text behind an object/character, so I used the same style in our own magazine front cover. At first I had trouble doing this, as I wasn't too sure how to fulfill this effect. I simply looked on Bing.com and found a tutorial. I used Adobe Photoshop CS3 to complete this action, as it's a programme I use in other subjects and for personal use. 
I used this front cover to look at the wording of advertisement. For example when Empire states "First Look", I also wanted to add this exclusive peak to advertise. On our final draft of the front cover, I used 'World Exclusive' and 'First look at the wanderer', to give the same the effect but creating a subheading of world exclusive. I made subheadings like this to keep the arrangement of the poster neat, keeping to that old fashioned western theme. 
I also noticed that Empire have their own organisation of headings, always using 'Plus!' as a subheading for inside contents. I thought this was an effective way of targeting an audience, as it allows people to read the front cover and get an insight to what it contains. On our poster I made the sub heading 'More' to keep to our formal appearance I didn't use an exclamation mark.
Another well known film magazine is Total Film, who review trailers, films and film news. They're titling is often large, and make their heading cover a quarter of the page. Whilst creating the front cover, I noticed 'Total Film' use the same fonts in their layout or the same colour scheme. After learning this I thought the front cover would be neater if I kept the font the same on the cover, but I did vary this when adding film names. I felt adding the film names in a different font adds their own advertising to the front cover. 
