Comparing products

With both the magazine and poster I used other products to give me ideas on how to make our products. By doing this I was able to make the magazine a lot easier than if I started from scratch and it also showed me what would work well with my photo.

POSTER

We got our initial idea from 'The Sixth Sense' poster. As you can see we made the main focus of the person (in our case the legs of a person) very dark and almost black. Then the outside made into deep red and orange colours. Although on 'The Sixth Sense' poster it is only in the middle of the page with a black background we all felt that we needed the whole of the page to be taken up by the legs and therefor had no room for the black background. We did not copy the text for the poster as ours is very different. Where as they have 6 different words to explain the whole film we needed 2 lines in a sentence structure to do ours. Also we added the small print text at the bottom of our poster. Although this is not seen in the other poster we believed we needed some text at the bottom and by looking at other Sixth Sense posters and other film posters, many do have this small text at the bottom. By comparing these posters it can easily be seen that we have used elements from it but also used our own ideas to create it.

Magazine

With the magazine cover it is a lot more obvious where I have got my ideas from. Although at first I was not going to use the Empire magazine cover after researching and discovering this one it seemed the clever thing to do to use this as my initial idea. This is because both pictures have women on the right hand side and both are slightly curved over. The text on both products as you can see are very similar by having different sizes to show the importance of each bit (the more important the bigger the text). Also to do with text the 'Transformers 2's' section has a blue background to stand out and it shows very clearly what film Megan Fox is appearing in. Empire used the colour scheme of light blue, on mine I have stayed with the red which links with the dress and 'M'. I have also used the idea of putting the three pictures on the left hand side showing what else is in the magazine. I stayed with the red theme by putting the text in red and the rest in white. However although there are many things that are the same I have put a few differences on my cover. Where the bar code is on the Empire one I felt it did not look right on mine so I decided the put it on the right hand corner with the price and date next to it. Also my title is different to that of Empire's where it is very bold and goes behind the picture of Megan Fox I wanted mine to stand out against the photo so made the background black and fade into the photo causing my title to stand out against the cover and not be hidden.