Magazine draft

As the poster has now been completely the next thing that needs to be done is making the film magazine cover for the film which advertises it and looks professional. So after looking at multiple different magazine and analysing their conventions we have created our first draft which can be seen here:

A supposed polybius
arcade cabinet 

We decided that when we were creating the draft we went more with a horror styled theme which can be seen with the information features as we have many horror related articles such as including an interview with Jordan Peele the director of Get Out (2017), a sample of Stephen King's, a horror author, new book and Q&A with horror director Rob Zombie. Also the title of the magazine is also has a horror reference to it as the name Polybius refers to an urban video game legend about the government using arcade machines to brainwash children using subliminal sounds and messages and I thought it would be a nice touch to name the magazine after it because of how ominous it is. We then showed this to our target audience so we could get some feedback. The main body of the magazine cover as you can see is that the villains face covers the entirety of it. This was done to make him look more powerful as by covering the magazine it forces the audience to look at him while his lifeless eyes stare back at them.

I like the layout. Good size of character. Text is perhaps too covered up. Interesting strapline. No background. The hand looks weird. Good drawing. - Mr Vardy 

I really like the style of font for both of the magazine as well as the style of the layout of the magazine. – Callum 

I think that it’s good but maybe have the face and hand closer together and have the text bolder. – Owen 

Main thing I like is the image because it’s quite mysterious, all the space is used. The strapline catches the viewers eye. - Natalia

 I like the positioning of the hand. Gives an evil impression. I think the font could be improved other than that no complaints. - Josh

So as you can see the feedback was generally positive with the main image of the villain being praised for giving the magazine a sinister vibe and how he covers most the cover making his presence more dominant. We were told however that the font choice we used could of been improved by making it more bolder so they it can be seen cleared from afar.