Creating a magazine cover

This is our magazine front cover for Blind Man`s Bluff, we decided to use Empire as not only is Empire one of the biggest movie magazines distributed in Britain, Empire moves away from hollywood funded movies and gives publicity to films of our genre. So therefore our film would be linked to magazines such as this due to our films potential to be a large financial success.

In the process of creating the poster, we conceived having the Rippers on the cover would be the most effective element of our magazine cover as they are the main antagonists of our film and antagonists are traditionally better received by audiences than protagonists. However if there was to be an alternative cover like that of the Hobbit when it featured in Empire, we could have had Abberline and Moore as a commercial option for those who prefer to purchase a cover with a protagonist instead of an antagonist.



We started with a brick background with initially sepia tone. We then typed found an authentic font for the title "EMPIRE" to give some legitimacy to our cover. We also added that the film was "a world exclusive" as this exclusiveness would attract a viewer.



Using the same text from DaFont.com, we wrote the name of our film in red to connate blood and danger, which is often associated with Jack the Ripper and placed it centrally to replicate graffiti as inspired by this screenshot from "Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets". 

As magazines such as Empire are not purely committed to it's cover film, we included other 
information snippets at the bottom of the magazine which is typical of a cover such as "Man of Steel" adding to the authenticity.



We then made some alterations to the colour of some of the quotes on it to make it look more stylish to fit the independent approach we've taken in this process. As well as the colour change of the colour of the brick wall, we also changed the font of Blind Mans Buff from red to white to connote openess and mystery though we maintained the red text for "Killing never looked so good".