For the start of creating this magazine I had a look at various different other film magazines to get an idea for what I wanted to create, I settle with a directors magazine as a more niche version of a film magazine because I didn't want to recreate other magazine that already exist and I had some ideas already that went with my directors magazine. Initially I started by creating the masthead in illustrator using the pen tool. Had the thought of going for the name 'direct' from the start and with experimentation added the clapper as the letter C because I felt it made that very obvious Link then to the magazine itself and didn't look out of place at all. After landing on a design I liked I then moved that design into adobe indesign to create the main layout of my magazine. I started by creating the bones of the front cover adding the text and the masthead to get an idea of where my images would go when I had taken them. After this I moved onto doing this for all of my
Total FILM Magazine - The front cover for the FILM magazine is filled with lots of different conventions and meanings, we can see that this specific cover is littered with that bright red colour. We can gauge from this that they are trying to portray a certain feeling within the magazines front cover as the colour red is a strong colour which often suggests violence/anger and we know from the cover of the magazine how this links to the movie because it is a film magazine based on an action movie. We gather it is an action movie also based on what the two stars are wearing and the props that they are holding, Little White Lies - The front magazine cover for little white lies is very different to a normal film magazine and does not follow the standard conventions of a magazine. They use graphics and art to alter their images to make them fall in line with their branding.