Film magazines or monthly or weekly prints that are published by several publishing house that are used to promote and or discus; film topics, release dates and trivia. Film magazines do not tend to often stray away from the conventional formulas that are present in any other type of magazine publication. The conventions of film magazines are pretty basic and these are; mastheads ( the title of the publication), cover line (the short statements often found near the masthead that are used to promo the content of the magazine and to tempt readers to purchase the issue) and puff (these arethe brightly coloured shapes that you can find poping out of the cover page, these work similarly to the coverline as they temp readers to wanting to buy the issue).
Masthead
Whilst researching into film magazines I had found that the must popular publications had catchy titles; the type of titles that just roll off the tongue, this is very vital for as it is a marketing startergy that gets the name of the magazine well branded into the public mind. Major examples of catchy titles range from "Total Film" to "Empire"; to further increase the authenticity of my ancillary task I had decided to duplicate this formula and slap it into my own magazine. Using "Total Films" as a stimulus I began to brainstorm ideas for magazines names by coupling a bunch of film terms together
such as "Motion" or "Flick" and had then settled on the name "Total Flicks".
With the title of my magazine chosen I had then began searching for the font I will like to use for my masthead; using dafonts.com I had came across five different fonts that caught my eye, I had then tested these fonts and took a pole in my media class for which font I should use.
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