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.