Critical reflection for magazine

Here is my final magazine trying to distribute my film towards my target audience. It is trying to sell many different films but its main one is "Remembrance day". I think my film magazine does a really good job of selling the film towards the audience as it represents the genre of horror to the target audience. Although I do think it could be improved if I took more time on its production. When creating the film magazine I stuck to most of the common conventions I had researched into. Many film magazine had one main image, large logo, etc. so I stuck to it although sometimes I had to go against my target audience who I surveyed what they wanted.

The typography on my magazine had to mainly represent the genre of horror although it is a film magazine so sometimes I had to use simple text just so I could show the audience there is more to the magazine than just horror. Many film magazines don't include much text so I stuck to this keeping the magazine as brief but still making the audience want to read it. If I were to do the text again I think I would take more care on choosing the text as it varys to often I feel. I like the colour of the text for the hobbit and the way I have added different effects to it. However for the simple text I feel I could have changed the colour of it and made it even bolder.

I decided to go against what my target audience wanted and just have one character on the front cover this adds more mystery to the film itself. I made sure that what the character was wearing connoted to the film. I was going to have more characters on the front cover but my images wern't the best with them in it. I made the actor stand out by adding an effect behind him to make him stand out from th black background. However just having one character connotes that he is standing alown. A darkness could connote to the audience that he is trapped. Photoshop made the image look much better but if I were to do this production again I would take more time on my image and make sure I didn't have to have a black background by actually going out and taking a good image else where for example a poopy field.

I stuck to the common conventions well by having a bar code, etc. however I didn't with the mathead. It is 1/8 of the page however I was going to have it stretched across the page like a normal magazine. But when I was doing this it made it ditorted and didn't look right, so I ended up making it a little smaller. The final masthead wasn't my first attempt my first attempt just had a snap board behind it. It looked okay but not amazing, so I decided to add different things to make letters, for example sound boom, snap board and part of a camera. This was made to stand out more by adding a light behind it.  Again this masthead wasn't amazing so I finally ended up with a spooky LCA effect to connote to the film its promoting. I like the masthead I have ended up with as it looks much better however if I were to do this again I would have leant from my mistakes of just adding an image behind the text as it doesn't look professional.