1. When making my magazine cover I
had to consider how I would make
it appear as if it belongs to a
magazine company but also how it
would be relevant to my movie
trailer. On my front cover I wanted
to place an image of my villains
mask, but I had to be carful doing
this, for example if I had chose to
use a worms eye view of my villain I
would have had less trouble
indicating that my villain is in
powered and strong due to the fact
it seems as if you are looking up to
him or below him. Because I chose
to use a close up view if my Villains
face I had to make sure that it was
sharp and well taken to be most
impacting. Because my movie
trailer is horror based I had to make
the front cover appear menacing so
I had to edit areas of my image to
make it seem dark and almost like it
is immersing from the darkness. To
make my image seem darker and
more horror related I used tools
such as burn tool to manipulate my
image, I also changed the
brightness and contrast to make
the lighting of the image correct
and more impacting.
Here is my original image for
my magazine cover.
For my magazine I wanted to make it seems
as if it were an original magazine such as
EMPIRE. I used the title EMPIRE for my
magazine but I made it so that it was in the
colour red to relate to my movie poster and
the theme of horror, this is due to the fact
red is resembled towards things such as
blood and hate.
When making this
magazine I had to
make sure I could
manage to make it so
that my viewer
would be able to
navigate the page
accordingly, for
example I used a
continuation f red
throughout my
magazine cover
starting from the top
leading to the
bottom allowing my
viewers to navigate
the page. I wanted to
relate some of the
text to the colour of
the mask in the
image, for example
THE WALK is written
in white to join to the
image and to also
navigate across the
banners on the left
hand side of the
front cover.
I made the banners vibrant in
colour so that they would stand out
and bring the story of the magazine
cover forward, it is also due to the
fact it leads the viewer toward the
image on the cover, and also
leading down toward the story
description underneath the
banners.
To make my magazine seem
more legitimate I placed a bar
code and the price to show
consumers.I used the colour red for other aspects such as appeal
toward my audience, for example because this is based for
a horror trailer I wanted to capture the attention from an
audience most interested in horror genre movies, using
the colour red will indicate this particular genre and by
using a vibrant colour of red I am luring in my target
audience.