Front cover: making of;

Image: For my front cover I went with one of my drafts of having a medium shot of both characters. I chose to do this as you can see much more than a close-up, and I believe it is much more striking than a close-up. I have also researched many front covers for Film magazines; for example TotalFilm, and I have found that many have a medium shot; or long shot on their front cover. In the image for the front cover I have put the woman; Sarah in a red dress, to go with traditional film syntax. This being that red is dangerous, subtly suggesting to the reader that something will happen to the couple. Also red also represents love in film syntax, and this represents the genre of the film. Again conveying to the audience that the pair are in love, and the film will be based on their love story. The man, Alex is dressed in a checked shirt, and this is because many young people wear checked shirts, and therefore it will communicate to the audience that this film is aimed at young people. Therefore my audience will read the front cover, as they will feel it is aimed at them. Also the checked shirt is red, and this with the dress conveys that there is a danger in this relationship, and in turn entices people to watch the film as they're interested to see what will happen to the couple. I have put the man behind her to show that the woman Sarah will be the main character of the film, and to show that she is somewhat authoritative in the relationship. I have done this purposely to mislead the audience into believing that the relationship is affected by her, whereas in actual fact it is affected by him. This therefore does not reveal the storyline of the film, and interests the reader into watching the film.

Masthead: The masthead is along the top of the cover, as it catches the eye of the readers if it were in a magazine rack, as you can only see the top of the magazine. It also follows conventions of magazine front covers, as the masthead's are usually at the top of the magazine front cover. I have also chosen to use different fonts for the masthead, as it contrasts the different words. Heart is in an itallic font, and is quite soft, representing the genre of the magazine, as this magazine is about romcoms, so I have chosen the soft font to reflect that. The colour heart is in purple, also to reflect the film genre, as purple is a feminine colour, and is also associated with romcoms. I chose to do purple instead of red, as with the characters in red it would be to overwhelming, and therefore I chose purple as it also reflects the genre, and goes with the colour scheme. I have chosen to put Cinema in a different font, a much stronger font to contrast between the words. As cinema reflects all types of genre's, I chose to put it in a font that can reflect the different genre's, such as Action and Horror. I also did this to convey to the readers that although it is a romcom magazine, it can include other genre's as well. The font is also in black to represent other genre's, not just romcoms, and it attracts males as well to the magazine. As romcoms are conventionally a female genre, and by putting some of the text in black it attracts males as well, also the image with attracts men as well, as there is also a man on the front cover.

Cover Lines: The cover lines are on the left side of my front cover, but I am going to put cover lines on both sides. I have done this as I have found that a convention of film magazine front covers, is to have cover lines on both sides of the cover. As you can see on the Total film cover, there are cover lines on both sides of the cover. For my front cover I have chosen cover lines that reflect my genre, for example interviews with famous romcom stars. I have a cover line of Jennifer Anniston, she is a famous romcom actress; who has starred in many famous romcom films such as 'The Break-up'. I have also put on my cover lines interviews with Patrick Dempsey, and Gerard Butler. These are also famous actors who have starred in many romcoms, for example Gerard Butler has starred in a very famous romcom 'P.S I love you'. I have also put a cover line of my film on 'Love's Young Dream'. This links my cover, my poster, and my film together, and is another way of promoting my film. This also reflects conventions of front covers, as when magazines have an image on their cover, they usually have a cover line reflecting the image. I have put it at the top, as it shows it is the most important cover line, and is another way of attracting the readers and audience. Some of the cover lines are in the same colour as the masthead heart. This is because it shows the importance of the cover line, and it is eye catching. I have only put the title of my film 'Love's Yung dream', and the Jennifer Anniston's name on the cover, as they're the things that attract the reader, and I want them to be the key features of the cover lines.

Date: I have put the date under the masthead 'heart', as it is at the top of the cover and this is a convention of front covers. I have chosen to do it as a monthly issue, as the most expensive and prestigous magazines are monthly issues. For example Vogue and Elle are monthly magazines, and are also the most expensive. I chose to do this as it makes the reader want to buy it more, as they only get it once a mont. I chose to use the same font as the cover lines to show a running theme, and it is in black also to link it to the cover lines.

This is my front cover, but it is not yet finished.