The document discusses the inspiration and scaffolding the author used to create their own magazine cover. They copied elements like tags and information from the Sight & Sound magazine covers. They also used a mixture of fonts inspired by the Quentin Tarantino cover. Additionally, the author analyzed conventions from Sight & Sound and Reeling magazines, such as typically featuring one person and the film title, which they applied to their own cover for layout and simplicity.

1. Magazine Inspiration
Inspiration from other magazine covers which I used to create my own.

2. Titles & Text
For the titles of my magazine
cover I continued to use Sight
& Sound as my indie
inspiration, copying the shape
of the tags and information on
them: name, issue, barcode
etc.
I used a mixture of font
types for the magazine
cover using the Quentin
Tarantino’s cover as my
scaffolding to create my
own: using the connective
‘plus’ like in Sight & Sound
(another example is use
of ‘also’)

3. Image and Film Title
I used Sight & Sound as well as
Reeling ‘the oscar issue’ as
inspiration and to analyse the
typical conventions to then use
for the layout of my cover. Not
only for the labels showing the
issue and title, but using the
conventions that there is only
one person on the cover with
the name of the film they are
involved in.
I chose to also look at Reeling
as I liked the simplicity of the
cover and the black and white
contrasts on the image and
titles – I wanted to keep my
cover as simple as possible as I
thought it was the most
effective.