colour research for magazine

As part of the research for my magazine, I have decided to research various colour pallets for different magazine covers. This will therefore help me to establish a colour pallet for my own magazine.

 

 

 

This issue of TOTAL FILM uses a very strong colour pallet relating to the main film featured, Captain America. The film itself features the patriotic character of Captain America, who embodies the colours of the American flag, red, white and blue. To create cohesion thorough the cover, a bright red is used on the masthead and box out behind the secondary images. The blue is used for the skyline and cover lines, while the white is used on the headline and cover lines. The black is used solely on the puff at the top of the cover. These three colours give a patriotic feel to the cover and strongly symbolises the key themes of the film, heroism, bravery and patriotism to the American flag.



 
 
 



The colour scheme for this issue of TOTAL FILM uses a luminous colour scheme of aqua blues and fuchsia pinks to link to the garish colours used on the poster for the film featured, Inherent Vice. The pink is used on the masthead to give a luminous neon light effect, it is also used as an accent colour on the cover line 'world exclusive' and as box outs to the picture captions. The blue is again featured as a neon light effect but used on the headline and skyline instead. White is used as the accent colour on the cover lines and the puffs. Overall the three colours create a luminous feel to the cover and adds a 'gaudy' look to connote to the 'gaudy' colours used in the film.

 

 

 

 

For my film magazine, I have decided to use a colour scheme relating to that of my poster. After looking at other magazines I have noticed that the colour schemes on the cover relates to the colour scheme of the film featured. This helps creates an overall theme to the cover. My colour pallet features a blood red colour to link to the violent/gory themes in my film. A grey/green off white colour will relate to the colours used on the masthead of the poster. I will then use a white colour on the masthead and as an accent colour on some of the coverlines.