1) Key conventions. Look over the magazine cover key conventions notes sheet and ensure you can confidently identify the key aspects that are found on a magazine cover.
2) Write an analysis of this BFI Film Festival programme front cover. How many of the 12 key conventions of magazine covers can you see? In what way does this print product differ from a traditional magazine cover? How have the designers made this programme visually interesting?
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| BFI London Film Festival front cover. |
3) Find at least 5 arts centre or cinema programmes/brochures aimed at a similar target audience to your project (arthouse cinema). For each one, pick out one design idea that you could use in your own print work.
4) Find at least 5 contents pages from arts programmes or magazines. How are contents pages designed? How do they use a combination of text and images to create an effective design?
2. For the BFI Film Festival Programme front cover has many key conventions of magazine covers that are matched with many other magazine covers, the key conventions that they have used in this magazine is the title of the publication, this key convention compliments the rest of the magazine techniques and allows the audiences to get a hint of what the magazine can be about. The magazine also includes convention like the logo, this is an important convention as it allows the audiences to know which company has published/made this article. Effectively the central image is used in between the title of the magazine, this allows the magazine to be different from the others and allows the magazine to stand out from the others simply because of their layout of the design, as the full image can not be seen, it still meets the requirements of the colour scheme that has shown throughout the magazine, this something that allows the audiences to want to read and pay attention to the article it self, hence why the colours of the blue, red and orange - the consistency gives the clean and professional look that allows the magazine to attract and meet the standards of the company itself. Something else that is typical to have within the magazine in a cover is the date, this key convention is something that is typical to have, just so then the audience are aware of when the magazine was given and maybe in this case of how long the BFI london Film Festival would last for.
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- The use of the central being the main attention, but smaller pictures at the side to let the audience know what else is involved in the magazine.
- Logo at the left corner
- colour scheme
- Collage of the different images behind the central image.
- smaller text at the bottom
- in some way the colours seems to fit to each other - used sensibly
- use of words within the central image
- Black and white colour scheme
- Texture that is along with the images
- simplicity
- the use of the texture/heading
- landscape theme.
- consistent use of the layout
- images along the side.
- central images takes up most of the front cover
- Writing on the bottom of the page.
4. The content pages:
The use of the content pages have the images in the centre of the images in mini boxes and the actual text of the pages are set to the right side.
Consistent use of colour.
- font.
- black and white theme just for images
- landscape style.
- text are smaller and similar sizes - use of the bold in the 'topics'
- smaller text at the bottom of the page with a promotion sign at the bottom.
- page numbers are within the shape of the stars
- use of other information added into the content pages
- different fonts - importance to the information they are addressing.
- use of the colour scheme: compliments the article itself along with the font writing.
- use of colour for the different numbers and the text
- set of images lined at the bottom of the page.
- one image is bigger than others whilst other are in boxes.
- images gives the audiences an insight to what it could be involved in the article.
Planning and sketching
1) Create a spider diagram or bullet point list of all the things your target audience might be interested in. How can you use this information to create a main feature about your film that will appeal to your target audience?
- celebrities
- latests movies
- gamings
- Latests technology
- TV shows gossips.
With the listings I have said above could be something that may appeal and be in the interests of the target audience, i would try to use this information by mentioning them as side information either on the double page spread or the side of the content page - on whichever page it will be on - its going to be at the side of the image because it can be something that acts like a little note or information the audience can have a glance or a read at before turning the page.
2) Produce an A5 sketch of your front cover including the key conventions and design tricks you have studied in existing programmes and then planned in planning task 1 above.
3) Produce an A4 sketch of your double-page spread contents page. In terms of the text for your contents page, you will need to find out the names of the films of other groups in your class. The other films in the class will make up the rest of your contents page.
4) Create a spider diagram or bullet point list of ideas for your double-page spread feature. Write a list of potential headlines and sub-headings for the article you choose to go with.
- quotes from either the production itself that have been used or from the text.
- how the production went - the process
- the deeper meaning of the movie - what made us choose the topic that we did
- my understanding/interpretation of the production.
5) Produce an A4 landscape sketch of your double page spread design now you have chosen the subject matter.
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