Magazine cover de-construction - Total Film magazine

this is a picture of the September 2005 issue of Total Film magazine's cover. i chose this particular magazine cover as the main story seemed to be similar to our idea; an action comedy, set in an older time with police and crime prevention as a plot line. This magazine cover has a large picture of a film coming out at that time. like most magazines they have used this image as both a back and foreground by obscuring part of the magazine title with the head of an actor. we will incorporate this feature into our magazine. another useful and common feature of film magazines is to include articles about films which have not been brought out yet. although we will not be able to create actual articles we can create captions as if our magazine had the articles within it. we can also include pictures of the actors within these films and quotes from the actors. these are both also common features of film magazines although have not been used in this particular one. the title of the film that they have used as the main picture has been written in a suitable font and has been coloured to both stand out and tone in with the picture. this is another feature of film magazines and shall be used in the construction of our film magazine cover. their are also articles listed on the cover as small headings posted arround the body of the large actors picture. their titles have also been toned in with the background. another feature of this magazine cover is the pictures at the top giving a clue as to what one of the other articles is about and what films may come out in the near future. this shall also be featured in our magazine cover. we can find news on upcoming movies from sutch sites as IMDb and comingsoon.net i have also noticed that most film magazines have a bar-code in either the top of bottom right hand corner. for our group this will be decided upon wich one suits our oicture and text format better.