With the previous practice on this blog and the research I have conducted into the making of magazine covers and ads, particularly for documentary ads, I believed I was ready to make my ancillary product. I firstly started with the photo I took of Bicester village, the chique designer shopping outlet, and used that as the focal image. The colours within this were mainly blues and grays, which would correspond well with a fairly neutral colour theme. I started with finding a font on power point and making the background title 'documentary', done in a dark blue to fit with the blues of the background photo.
After this, as seen below, I found a bar-code on a royalty free website to input into the magazine, as i believe this gave the cover much more of a sense of professionalism. I also made the main font shadowed for the title, as this made it much more eye-catching. I believe this made it fit conventions of a documentary magazine cover or advert because there is a focal image which is quite eye catching as it contains designer shops which again reinforce the genre and narrative, and I also think the main title along the top fits the conventions of the other posters that I researched into.
After this, I decided I needed to make the title of the documentary really obvious and eye-catching along the centre of the photo, because then this way it will catch the readers attention and give the documentary the advertisement and promotion it needs. I did this in a lighter shade of blue, as it fits with the colour scheme yet is more eye catching than the name of the advert. I have done this because I think the main feature of the front cover needs to be that it shows off the documentary we have made. I also included some typography that demonstrates other things within the ad, such as 'Joe Rumford reviewing' something as this shows that the ad does more than just show off our documentary. I feel like this makes the ad seem much more realistic and believable.
After this, I included some more typography and made the main title bright red to make it much more eye catching. I did this because most of the ad that I did research into had a very eye caching title, and this tends to get more of the target audience because they see something that provokes curiosity.
Overall, I am happy with the product so far. I believe that it advertises and promotes the documentary, but not in a manner that makes it seem that that is the only thing it is there for. It seems realistic and professional because it contains a bar-code and advertisements for other things within the magazine, and it also fits conventions of normal magazine posters because it has a focal image, colour theme and some eye-catching titles. I am now going to conduct some audience research and find what can be improved upon before I make the final draft of my poster.
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