Initial planning for film magazine front cover

Initial planning for magazine front cover

Me and my group designed the plan for the magazine front cover in terms of what should be the central image of the magazine cover, what the title of the magazine should be called, the three colours that are used within the three colour rule, the skyline and etc. At the beginning stage of designing the magazine cover, we decided to give the name of the film magazine Glacier as the production company we called for our trailer is Glacier studios but later decided to name our magazine Focus as it represents a magazine more so than the name Glacier. The title Focus is more appropriate than Glacier as it sounds more like a film magazine as it connotes that it is going to focus on specific films in each issue. We also changed the name of our film trailer from Standing to The Hunted as our questionnaire responses for our film trailer title was not recognisable to the genre of our film trailer and the title The Hunted has two meanings in which the survivor(s) within the synopsis of the film are hunted by 'The Infected' or the survivor(s) are hunting their goal of survival and 'The Infected' in some cases within the synopsis of the film. The word 'Hunted' suggests fight or flight between prey and predators in which the prey can be the survivor(s) or 'The Infected' depending on the scenario which this title outlines the narrative of the film. The central image is the main protagonist Dorian in which the protagonist is standing above the then title 'Standing' in which suggests that the character is more superior than the antagonists within the film as he is standing above the title 'Standing'. The colours used within the magazine cover are red, black and grey as these colour connote danger (red) , darkness (black) and hope fading (grey) due to the colour converging from white to black which creates the metaphor for hope fading into doom. The slogan for the magazine cover is "The best zombie film in years" which promotes the film even further as sustains in the reader's head in which may entice and excite them to want to watch the film when it is released or look out for further updates in association of the film i.e. announcements, posters, other trailers, reviews and film talk shows that speak about the upcoming film.