Monday, 7 January 2013

Print screens on final magazine progression

Our group put the picture as a JPEG File, so that it was compatible with Photoshop. After this we Had to cut around the actress's face with the laser tool. We had to be extremely careful with this and take our time as the viewer will be drawn to that part of the magazine immediately because of the title. We decided to cut the face out so we could layer it over the title within the next step. Our research found that the magazine Empire usually has the actors head over the title like previously discussed.
After this we had to set the empire title as Layer 2, in which the Empire Title was behind the actress. We achieved this by using the Adobe Chroma Key. I believe this looks extremely effective and professional.
Thirdly by Using the Adobe Chroma key, we added a Layer 3. In which we created subtitles for our magazine cover. We have used the same font but have changed things for example the colour and made some of the works italic. This adds body to our magazine.
We has chosen the colour of mustard as this would go well with our title of our film. As we were discussing this we decided that having just the two colours mustard and black together would make the poster look a bit bland, and the text may blend into the brick wall. After this we decided to conflict the typical conventions of not having the same colour font at the magazine title as we believed adding some red text within our magazine would be most effective as it draws all the colours together.
I believe the red also connects with the characters red jumper. We decided to use a heading above the magazine title as it gives the viewer an idea of the film and teases them by asking a rhetorical question. I believe that this works well, and that we should consider making certain words in different colours or make them more bold. Our group also decided to add our title from our film poster within our film magazine to connect our promotional package. Again we used the laser tool to cut out the words carefully, and I believe we have done a good job at making our title look professional. We had a lot of discussions on whether to overlap the title over the character but looking at my film magazine research, I believe this is a great idea as the titles are just as important as the stars. After this we inserted the barcode in the bottom right hand corner because that's where we could fit it after adding our titles, we also added a website below the magazine title, and within the 'M' we had included the date, and issue number.




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