Final Magazine cover

Here is our final Magazine cover. Overall we are very pleased with the outcome and glad that we managed to finish the poster in time for our deadline.

Producing the magazine

Below I will be documenting the process of our magazine, it was a very long process but we managed to do it all in the end:

The first step was to choose our photograph and use the quick selection tool to select the image and remove it from the unwanted background.

Before placing the image we first had to choose the background that we wanted. We chose a brick background in order to give it a rough feel. We then edited the background with a cartoon, artistic feel similar to the ones seen on Little White Lies. We also added an effect to the image of Tommy before we placed it onto the background.

 

We then placed the image onto the background and cropped it into place.

We then added the title 'Motion.' We used the effects button in order to play around with the drop shadow and outer glow of the text.

We added in the bar-code and circle design similarly to the Little White Lies using the shape tool. Then we made the text smaller so that they could fit together.

We then added in the rest of the text making sure to stick to magazine conventions that we have already looked at.

We did a sight test of the magazine to see if all the text was distinguishable from far away. We realised that it wasn't so we had to change the colour of the text. we also changed the size of the bar-code as it was far too large in comparison to the magazine title, causing it to take attention away from it.

Discussing Magazine Ideas

After researching different types of magazines and different genres we realised that we didn't think that any of the magazines that we had researched were particularly suited to our film, this             meant that we wouldn't use any currently existing magazines, instead we would produce our own.

However we really liked the artistic element portrayed in the Little White Lies magazine.

     

                         

            

We decided that the best idea would be to create our own magazine featuring particular elements from the Little White Lies magazine cover and also incorporating our own. The magazine that we would produce would be a hybrid magazine and it would feature films with all different types of genres.

Photo options

Rather than taking completely new photographs we decided to use some of the photographs that we had already taken during filming. This decision will allow us with more time when we begin to produce the poster. Below are the options that we thought would be most appropriate for our idea out of the images that we already had.

After much discussion we all finally agreed on an image that we all liked and thought would be best for our magazine cover:

Magazine Title Results

The poll is closed and the results are in!

There is a clear winner taking 53% of the votes...

Motion

Magazine title ideas...

We decided to begin coming up with ideas for the title of our magazine . We started by looking at different words that would be associated with the genre of our film. We looked on the thesaurus and started brainstorming words that we found from that website.

We then produced a poll and opened it up to peers to vote for name which they thought would be most suitable for our magazine.

Producing our front cover photo

To get the professional photography effect, we are looking at using a Nikon SLR to get the highest quality photo, using a plain white backdrop and lighting to achieve a clear photo we can easily work with when editing. We haven't quite decided on costume ideas yet as we may stick to the plain white shirt he wears in the trailer or even style him to wear something more edgy to create the idea of a proper photo shoot for a magazine with an actor.

Photoshop experiment for magazine cover

After deciding that we want to use similar effects as 'Little White Lies' do, I got home and played around with some effects to achieve a similar effect. I used different effects such as changing the contrast and saturation, then using the filter, artistic, dry brush and poster edges effects. So here is my little creation on Photoshop!

Portrait Styles

In terms of developing our magazine cover we decided to look at different portraits in order to find one that is best suited for our actor/character and the film itself.

We looked at portraits from iconic photographers such as Mario Testino and David Bailey

Mario Testino

David Bailey

We also explored the idea of using two characters in the magazine cover such as Scott and Layla in order to promote the romantic side of the film as well as the action/thriller of the storyline. We feel that this could broaden our audience with the use of both genders. 

Magazine Cover Ideas

We were experimenting with magazine covers and looked at creating our own magazine in order for it to be appropriate for our genre/film as we felt that the magazines researched were not tailored enough for our film.

We decided to take inspiration from the Little White Lies magazine cover, in particular the Drive/Ryan Gosling cover due to the similarities in character/genre of our film and Drive. We also liked the artistic/creative approach to each magazine cover but didn't like the Little White Lies logo as it takes our attention off of the image itself and the logo could be experimented with in order to suit our film and the "mainstream" magazine covers.

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Magazine research

We began by looking at a popular film magazine commenting on the conventions that it used: 

There are a variety of different types of magazine covers for us to choose from, before making a decision we thought that the best starting point would be to research the types of magazines and chooses the one which would be most appropriate for our film.

Mainstream

The mainstream magazines are mainly used for large well-known blockbuster films starring well-known actors. The images used are the actors in character, including costume and props. The editors assume that the audience will know the actors which is why their names have not been placed on the magazine cover. The Empire magazine is more of a males magazine as it usually features more action films, such as 007, Batman and Captain America.

Art House

Art House magazines are usually feature films which are more creative and usually less mainstream than other films. The images used are usually just of one person- actor or director.  The Little White Lies magazine cover is more minimalistic and uses an image which is more artistic, with a painterly effect which portrays the more artistic sorts of films.

Specialist Audience

Specialist magazines are focused on a particular target audience. Studio is the UK's first film magazine and the only one of its kind. This can be used when there is a specific target audience for our film, such as a female audience in terms of Studio. The images used for the magazine are mostly portraits of the actors themselves as opposed to as a character they are playing however this particular magazine cover does look classy/character like due to the positioning of the actor.

Genre

  

Genre Magazines focuses on a specific genre for example SFX focuses on science fiction whilst Fangoria focuses on horror films. The images used are in character including costume/make up etc. this is to make the genre evident and especially for Fangoria it is to attract the target audience, because if someone from the target audience saw a gruesome character on the cover of the magazine it may influence them into buying it.

Final poster

After all our hard work we have finally finished our final film poster as below:

Process of producing the poster..