Flat planning the magazine cover

Now we have the poster finished we have to work on the magazine cover.

We started with the main image and made it smaller so that we had room for all the other elements we needed to put on the page.

We spent a lot of time making up the magazine title because we wanted it to look really professional.

We then put on the barcode and the price, issue date and issue number.

We put in the title and the strapline and added a cheeky edition to the strapline.

We decided to make the whole edition focussed on Halloween.

Then we laid out the Special Features and the blurb about the movie. We spent a lot of time on this as we wanted to make the text wrap around the image nicely. Luckily we could write our own words so we could change things to fit.

Of course, I am making it sound much easier and quicker than it really was but after a couple of goes this is what we ended up with.