Research

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?

On this film festival programme colour I can see a title of publication that is printed in big , bold letters with the word "FILM" being the focus of the spread. In terms of the colour scheme the bright colours reflect off of the black background which makes it stand out more,making it more appealing and noticeable for the readers enticing them to what its about. The use of the language for example 'in partnership with' and 'American Express' suggest that this film company is quite serious about their business and are also very high up in what they do as they are in partnership with quite high companies with reputable names that are widely recognised. Instead of using colour to fill in the words, they've used an image of a persons face with the eyes being the sole focus which is effective as it makes people stop and read the poster. This is also effective in the sense that it is something different and more complex as opposed to something boring like plain colours.








3) Find at least 5 arts centre or cinema programmes/brochures aimed at a similar target audience to your project (art house cinema). For each one, pick out one design idea that you could use in your own print work.







I could use their idea of using the whole image as the background .The image could consist of the 5 teenage characters that will be in our film.






I could use their idea of having more than one image on my print work. Also my title of publication will be big and bold like how they used theirs.






I like the idea of turning the title of publication into the central image of the cover. I may consider using this idea for my print work.




I like how the text links well with the central image. The title of publication is 'cyberbully' which contrasts with the central image of the teenage girl alone on her laptop. It signifies how she is lonely and on her laptop which links well with the word 'cyber'. She is also bending her head down at the laptop and holding her mouth , showing the disgust she has for whatever she is looking at on the laptop. This links well with my target audience of young teens as this is something that is common which a lot of teenagers.



I like the idea of the male and female facing each other as they are in love. This will link well with my film and target audience as our idea is about a two of the characters who like each other and fall in love however it doesn't end very well. I think by using an image like this for my print work will deceive the audience of the outcome of the situation and make them more shock and intrigued with our story line.


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?




1) This contents page contains a large title of publication which is usually what draws the readers attention first , however it mostly contains a large image that is quite colourful.




2) This contents page has a lot of things going on at once. It is not one of he best contents pages I've seen however it does have some key conventions such as its title of publication and use of two images. These two conventions work well together as the image links back to the title of publication informing us that this is the name of the film and the image gives us a brief look at what we may see if we watch it.




3)This is a simple contents page where the whole image is the background. There is a minimal amount of text however it is not very easy to notice so it may not be as important as the image itself.




4) This contents page splits it importance of advertisement equally. Half of the page is the image they are advertising and the other is text about information on the brand shown in the image.




5) This contents page has a large amount of text surrounding a small image of a female. This image is advertising the brand vogue which is written in bright, red , bold letters which will automatically gain the readers attention.