Draft of Magazine cover done!

Another film poster draft, need feedback!

Change of placement

The feedback I got from my focus group suggested I need to rethink where my poster would be placed, the comments I received all shied towards using a billboard layout, as due to its format and content this would be most suitable.

My poster contains several elements and images which would require time to look at it, outside/inside a cinema on a billboard like the ones above would be a good placement, the landscape format also fits the conventions of a billboard poster rather than a magazine.

Feedback from focus group

POSTER
-Consider billboard format (outside cinema's e.g. cinema city)
-Left hand images not as strong as right, too dark and may not fit with others
-Film festival things need border
-Play around with order of images/borders

MAGAZINE
-Blend image with background
-Superimpose character's face into background of magazine
-Decrease size of link thing, move to bottom also
-Move movie title to bottom of page, within the image

Focus Group on Prezi

 Feedback

Experimenting with the magazine cover

I have been experimenting putting together the front cover of my magazine, I am having a few difficulties with photoshop but will seek advise to achieve the maximum result for my cover. I will update my progress..

More magazine layouts

Here are another two possible layouts for my magazine, I have decided on where the text and such will go, it's just the background image that I am finding difficult to gain inspiration for. I will experiment taking images like these two and will see if they are suitable for the cover, this will be done tomorrow.
I like the idea of having my figures face partially covered with a shard of mirror as this features in both my teaser trailer and on the poster, which would link the 3 nicely together. It would represent her broken up mind and psyche. 

Poster placement

Through looking at various types of film magazines I have decided that the Sight&Sound magazine would be a suitable place to feature my poster. When creating my draft posters I thought that I would change them to a typical A4 portrait format to fit nicely into a magazine, although now I'm beginning to like the idea of having the poster landscape. This would make the reader possibly engage more with the poster as they would have to turn the magazine to view it properly, which would perhaps make it slightly more interesting. As the poster is featuring a niche genre film it would be fitting to make the format less mainstream, to mix things up a bit.