Ancillary Task One: Film Magazine Front Cover Design

Before beginning to make my first ancillary product, I had to think about the layout I wanted and what kind of imahge I wanted to use. Due to the genre of the film being a suspenseful thriller, the image is the main factor that is going to speak to the audience. The image has to be the right tone, brightness, it has to say the right message to the audience otherwise the trailer, the magazine and the poster will not be in sync.
Here are a few mock-ups that were drawn for possible layouts of the magazine. On all of the them, the face had to be the main image that people will be drawn by. The image has to call out to the audience and most importantly the colours have to pop on the shelf.
Here are the mock-ups that were drawn:

On thes mock-ups only the layout of the image, the straplines, the kicker, the pug, the barcode were planned. However, what they straplines were going to say are not feeatured on the mock-up, only the positioning of them were important. The reason for this is because we had not, at this point, had an image to work with/around. This meant that the positioning of the magazine features on the final design might change, however, we used our mock-up as a guideline for us to work with.