Magazine cover main layout

This is the start of my magazine cover with the main features added created using InDesign.

• The title: Flic-king is a play on the word flicking which refers to both flicking through pages in the magazine and also, as flims are sometimes refered to as flicks, it shows what the genre of the magazine is (Movie Magazine) and as a king of flicks it implys to the audience that it is a good magazine and maybe even the best magazine for film news.


• The top line: "From the red carpet to your front door" is an extra enforcer to the genre and tells the reader what the magazine may contain.


• The font: The title font is meant to look like a film strip as is fitting with the genre using a font found on dafont.com. The top line is in italics so it looks like its in keeping with the fancy red carpet. The date, price and "Magazine" are all in an easy read font as they do not add to the magazine but are important for it to have.


• Finally, the image: Nothing was done to change the image as I thought it worked fine on its own. Part of the rose was cut off and coppied using Photoshop so it overlapped the title and was hence made part of the magazine. This is done in many other magazines I researched. The image is not a conventional image for a magazine as it does not engage the audience by using a person's face to connect with them using eye contact but I wanted the gun to be the main draw point and the colour red in the clothes to attract attention and interest.