Evaluation on Magazine research

As mentioned before in my research, there is a significant difference between MAINSTREAM magazines and INDEPENDENT magazines. Mainstream magazines would always tend to have a central dominant image of an actor that starred in the film. Independent magazines on the other hand however would tend to have a director or crew member on their magazine cover which are usually "unheard".

I chose to have a mainstream magazine, not only because I chose my teaser traielr to be presented as mainstream but also because I felt that it would show an easy connection with a mainstream magazine of a main character of my teaser trailer. 

But regardless to any type of magazine, whether it was independedt or mainstream, comedy or horror, I had to have taken into account the conventions of a magazine in their layout and design. The most essential ones were:

• Masthead 
• Date
• Issue Number 
• Banners 
• Bar Code 
• Price

Each of these conventions would develop my media product as a real media product. Here are some screenshots of these conventions from my magazine:

MASTHEAD, DATE, ISSUE NUMBER, PRICE AND SLOGAN

I noticed in my research that in most magazines, these conventions would tend to appear together. I also happened to have noticed that half of the slogan tends to be covered up by the dominant central image. In fi




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