Final magazine double page

Magazine Scribd

This is my flat plan for the magazine double page that I intend to create in Adobe Indesign CS5.5. I have taken conventions from existing film magazines such as Empire and Little White Lies, such as the round corners on the main image, as seen in LWL and the symmetrically of the double page layout with the use of four columns to fill up the page. In the images I intend to feature my images from the film of two actors, Dan Annear and Jake Clutsom. I have chosen to do this because the readers can see the location of the film aswell as the actors too, therefore making the viewer more interested in the film and giving them a sneak peek into the featured product. Other conventions have been included too, such as the exaggerated first letter, the page numbers at the bottom and the name of the film in bold at the top of the page.

In terms of colour, I have decided to follow a similar scheme to Little White Lies because I feel that its influence on the independent film scene makes it more suited to my target audience. I will use a block coloured background of black, with white text and title. This is a lot more interesting than using black on white, because it will make the text stand out a lot more and is seen to be unusual due to white on black being used quite often.

I have chosen to use Indesign for creating this magazine as Photoshop doesn't have the same features for using columns and also Indesign is a more professional tool that designers in the media industry actually use. Although I don't know how to use it as well as Photoshop I feel that I could probably learn it and look online for tutorials if necessary.