Ancillary TaskFilm Magazine Cover

Guidelines

Due December 10th - Only 2 weeks!Worth 10 marks (from a project total 100)1 Magazine Cover per group needed

Format

The format that this should take is similar to the poster:◦ It should be an extension of your trailer – the genre

should be clear.◦ the settings and characters must be from your film

(although again they don’t have to be taken directly from your film).

◦You must think about what would be appropriate for the cover of a magazine – regulations are a bit looser than posters but not much.

◦Your work must include all the features and conventions of a film magazine cover, there are examples saved on the computer desktops to help you.

Mark Scheme- Level 4

Using IT appropriately for the task set Showing understanding of conventions of layout and page

design Showing awareness of the need for variety in fonts and text

size Accurate use of language and register Appropriately integrating illustration and text Framing a shot, including and excluding elements as

appropriate Using a variety of shot distances as appropriate Shooting material appropriate for the task set Selecting mise-en-scene including colour, figure, lighting,

objects and setting Manipulating photographs as appropriate to the context for

presentation, including within text, within particular IT programmes, cropping and resizing

Conventions of a magazine cover

Magazine cover terminology

Masthead – The top of the magazine which includes the Title, cover price and Tagline.

Tagline – Not all magazines have this, is like a mission statement summarising the focus and brand image of the magazine.

Sell Lines or Teasers – These promote the articles and features in the magazine, the focus will be on the film featured in the cover images but additional articles will be included.

You should produce an A4 cover

Blog expectations

Your blog should continue to be used to track the progress of production, weekly updates should be continued and any draft work should be added and contextualised.

In addition I have set a task for you to complete…

Blog task – genre and influences

How does the cover effectively promote the film?◦ Describe the cover image. How is it framed? What type

of shot has been used? Describe the lighting and mise en scene.

◦ Discuss the issues of representation and any connotations of the images

◦ What is the overall effect of the image? How effectively does it target its audience?

◦ How is the lead article promoted on the cover? What devices have been used (i.e alliteration, mode of address) and what effect do they have?

◦ How strongly does the cover focus on the film promoted by the image, consider the size of the other teasers?

◦ Do the articles and image on the cover enforce or subvert your expectations of the genre?