Magazine Concept Art

When it came time to make a film magazine, I decided to stick to that of an 'Empire' layout (as I have previously dissected its conventions, thus making it familiar). However, as my film was significantly less than that of Inception in both scope and budget, I concocted 'Indie Month', Empire's attempt to give smaller indie films a platform for wider recognition.

when it came to pre-visualization of the cover (as sighted above) I Contemplated that of the rule of thirds (and by extension breaking them, having the image's subject center-frame as apposed to being in conjunction to one of the intersects). As well as this, I also toyed with the idea of this magazine (along with the accompanying poster and trailer) being synergetic products (all promoting the same property, over an array of different mediums). This being achieved by implementing similar set dressing to that of the poster (i.e work papers, storyboards, etc) and idents, title cards and diegetic props/ set dressings used in the trailer.

A further thing i wanted to keep consistent between my products and heavily implement was that of colour grading (As discussed in the Wes Anderson case study). Having such an element as a consistent colour grading will not only help in the conveyance of the tone i'm attempting to portray, not only weave back into the notion of synergy, but evoke the idea that these products are in fact all one of the same. That both this magazine (and aforementioned poster) are attempting to promote the trailer, imitating it's styling as to not falsely advertise as something its not.

Also, as a nod to my fellow classmates, I implemented the use of their own productions into cover, in the form of cover lines on the bottom of the magazine.