Inspirtaion
Finding a good idea that works for every member of the group is always a difficult task, with this in mind we went on the search for posters that could give us inspiration or even certain ideas to take. As well as the images we also need to make a magazine name to feature above the image. here is some of our favourite magazine covers and why they inspired us:
EMPIRE MAGAZINE: Empire magazine has been around for some time now giving their views on the latest and upcoming movies, The magazine includes sections in which show the critics and the publics opinions on films new and old. keeping it More relevant to us we looked closely at their magazine cover, The cover of an empire magazine normally has the actor or actor's as the main image showing them of to be the icon of the movie, They also have the name of the movie showcased in large letters located near the bottom of the image. This is the first thing about the poster we instantly found appealing, the title being bold with a white colouring makes it the main attraction of the poster, the title is also followed by the star actors name which in our case we could use any of our group members. We also liked the way they showcased the characters of the movie making them look heroic and powerful, this has inspired our magazine to include the three main characters and show them off as an icon of the movie.
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TOTAL FILM: Total film is a similar magazine to Empire in the sense they review movies and give them scores and ratings. Again we moved away from what was inside the magazine and focused mainly on their cover, The covers included a lot more writing than Empire as they included titles of other movies being released and information about what exclusives they had in the weeks copy. This is something we looked at closely as the titles took away the view of the image and made them the main attraction of the cover. As we have previously made another horror we decided to look at this style of cover and use titles which advertised other Horror projects. The cover was also different in the sense that they only used one actor or actress for the image making them the star of advertising, this gives the character an almost appealing convention as the character placed on the front cover is usually good looking of glamorous in some way, This inspired us to add more titles to our cover and made us think about only having one character as the main image, This open'd a lot of options as we have many characters that could be seen as icons such as zombies, the main three survivors or a member of the cannibal group.
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Looking closely into our genre in particular we found the movie magazine cover from the company 'Weekly Entertainment' The magazines main image and appeal of the front cover was about the zombie film 'World War Z' We thought they covered the film very well with the image of brad pitt (The key character) and an image of the world map in the background covered in the colour red. This gave all the connotations of the zombie genre with the colour red representing blood and gore and the image of the map conveying world wide infection, the cover inspired us to have something relevant to the zombie apocalypse in the background of our image. We thought this would add a gloomy effect to the cover and make it evident that our film followed the zombie genre. Finally we liked the way the title of the magazine was placed behind Brad Pitt's head, this gave him the centre of attention view and made him look like the most important part of the cover even that important that he covers the title, this again inspired us to use the same idea as we all agreed it looked effective behind the characters image as it made him the main icon of the cover.
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