First magazine idea

When it came to making the magazine front cover our group decided to split up and produce our own ones as we all had different ideas on what we wanted to do.

My first idea was to use the Total Film magazine with the film Inception on the front as I liked the layout of the magazine the more I looked at it, when I first saw this front cover I did not believe the layout worked well but now looking at it again I feel it does as it was the first magazine front cover I thought of meaning if I used some of the techniques used on my magazine it could make mine remember-able as well.

With this magazine in mind I started to create my own version of it. I decided that although there were photoshoots to produce a photo for the front cover I decided to go back and use one of the photos where 'Lily' is in the cupboard as it links with the trailer as it is a scene from it. Also the emotions on her face are really strong and you believe she is scared and looking out for someone. I also added a title to the cover, I used 'Filmedia' as it is featured in the poster an trailer as the producers of the trailer and believed it would work well as a film magazine name.

From there I changed the text to Weathered SF (the same text which has been used in the other two products) and put it in bold to make it stand out more, I also changed the 'M' in the title to be bigger than the rest so it stands out more and also helps to show that the 'M' is for the end of film and beginning of media.

The next part that I wanted to do was to make certain parts stand out in colour. I wanted her red dress and the brown shoes to be the only thing in colour on the picture and the rest to be in black and white. To capture that look made the photo black and white and then uploaded the photo again and kept it normal colours. I then used the 'Selection Bruch' and went around the shows and dress and selected all that I wanted/needed to.

Then all I had to do was copy the selection, make a new layer in front of the old one on the black and white (original) photo and paste it in, and because the shoes and dress were in the exact same position it meant the colours went straight onto the sections I wanted them too.

However there was a down side to doing it this way, as you can see below where the two photos have overlapped there are some places I have missed/there are white marks along sections which do not look right. To fix this I decided to use the 'Smudging' tool to go all around the outside of both the dress and shoes so they both blend in better with the black and white photo.

Now that the photo was finished I could move on to change the font to the right colour that was needed. I played around with some colours until I finally decided on the bottom one and changed the 'M' to the same red as the dress.

The last bit I needed to do was add more text onto the page. I put all the subheadings in the same colour as the 'M' and therefor the dress, and the rest in white as it stands out against the dark background. I also needed to add a bar code onto the front cover.

Although this is my finished product I do not believe it is very good. I an happy with the photo and the editing of it, but I feel there is too much empty space and do not know what to do with it. Also it does not link as well as I first hoped with the Inception magazine. Because of this I am going to produce another magazine front cover and research into another magazine.