Magazine final

This is our final outcome of the magazine front cover. While creating the magazine front cover in Adobe Photoshop CS3, i wanted to make it look as similar to the draft that i created as possible but as time and work progressed, the magazine cover done in Photoshop was starting to look a little different to the draft, but i honestly think it looks better.

Although many obvious changes were visible, i kept a variety of things which i thought needed to be there such as the masthead. We kept the masthead the same (The Big Screen) but because our movie is a horror movie and this magazine was supposed to be a horror magazine, we decided to make our magazine a horror edition so using the brush tool i drew over the 'E' and the 'N' in a scratchy motion to change the masthead into 'The Big Scream' rather than 'The Big Screen' and to give the masthead a little blood and gore to it.

Something else we decide to keep was the slogan above the masthead 'Is this the greatest year of release for horror movies?' and the other sub stories featured inside the magazine such as 'Top 10 Movies Ever' and 'Massive Preview Special'. When i recreated my draft magazine cover, i included all the sub stories and slogans onto the page but it was too empty so i added more such as 'Let Me In - A modern horror classic re-vamped'. Me and my group mates also thought that if this was a horror edition to our magazine 'The Big Screen' then everything should be about horror and that's why we took off the 'Shia Labeouf on filming Transformers 3' as we thought it was inappropriate to the horror theme.

The image we used for our magazine front cover and the one i drew on the draft look different and we never took the image i drew on the draft. Instead we decided to pick a image from the many many photos we took and we chose one which fit our magazine cover and is sort of similar to the one i drew, but more is revealed. With our movie, we wanted to keep the main character a secret and not reveal her face to the public and that's why in both drafts (Magazine Front Cover and Film Poster) her face was hidden with her long jet black hair. This wasn't the case when we took the photos and we ended up taking photos that looked different but i must say that i like the photo we used looks better than the one i drew as the one i drew resembles 'The Ring' or 'The Grudge' too much. What i like about the photo and what made me choose it to use on the magazine front cover was the fact that one of her eyes is more visible than the other as one is more in the dark and the other is more revealed which is kind of like the image i originally drew for the draft. I also love how the blood running down her face is visible underneath the darkness which gives her a crazy sinister feel. We also added some effects (shadow and highlight, photo filter) on the image to make certain hints of it stand out (e.g. the blood on the face) and to give it a dull grimy look to go with the horror theme.

Although this magazine cover looks the same as the one above, there is a small difference. You may or may not have noticed but we decided to change the price of the magazine. Why? We did some researching into magazines and we noticed that movie magazines tend to be more pricey than the average gossip magazine.

Our first price was £2.50 which we changed to £4.99 as most the movie magazines such as Empire cost £4+. By doing this we have followed the magazine cover convention closer

and this will make our magazine cover look more professional.

Posted by Lucy Luu