Week One
This was the final phase of our practical assessment after already completing both the trailer and the film poster.
The first we thing we did was to look again at different influences. We had the option of basing our magazine poster on the existing ones made by 'Empire'. We thought this was probably best so that we had a framework and we could develop our cover in different way, by building on idea we saw from existing magazine covers. We looked on the Empire website at various different covers and found it quite hard to find one of our genre, as a lot were of the wrong type of genre. We eventually came across finding the cover for Iron Man 2, and even though it's more of a Sci Fi genre, we liked a lot of aspects used in it and we thought we could work with for our cover.
We again, did the magazine cover on the PC programme Photoshop. Before we began building our poster we had to look at an original cover from Empire Magazine to use as our influence. We chose Iron Man 2 and used a series of factors that we liked from the cover on ours
Week 2
This is when we began putting our magazine cover together. The first part we concentrated on was the background, the title and the text that we were going to show. We had already decided that the main block colour we would use for the background would be black as we thought that we could then use stronger, brighter colours for the rest and it would stand out well. When we tried to put in the 'Empire' title on top of the background, was when we encountered our first problem. We typed out the title simply enough but when trying to change the colour to red, Photoshop would not let us do this and simply just stayed as a grey colour, and everytime we tried t o do something, new layers kept on appearing.. This issue proved very time consuming and we had to restart Photoshop a number of times. Eventually, we were able to change the colour to red, and then add on the outer glow effect, something we wanted to keep the same as our poster (the actor’s names).
The next step in making our cover was to advertise the other films included within the magazine. On the Iron Man 2 cover, we liked how the other films were displayed, with the picture shown of each film, and then the writing on the right of the picture, We decided to change this idea slightly by using a film strip template, and inserting the pictures of other films into each section. We simply just got a template form the internet, and then began to research into what other existing horror films were out in November this year. One which we included was ‘Paranormal activity’. We placed all three images onto the film strip and placed the title of each film below. Again, we used the idea of the glow effect for each title which we thought worked really well. We then found out from the guidelines, that you can not use real films on your cover. At first this proved an issue, but then we came up with the idea of using other films that our classmates had made and after asking them to make sure it was ok, they were fine with it so we just took images form each of their films and replaced them on the cover.
The next step was to add on the barcode and prices etc. We used the same prices as on the Iron Man 2 cover and used their idea of having it just above the ‘M’ in ‘Empire’. We thought this was a good place for it and it proved to work well. We got a barcode image form Google and decided to place it on the bottom right hand corner of the cover. Another aspect of the Iron Man 2 cover we liked was the circle image which included the ‘Ultimate review of 2009’. We thought this was a effective way to show another feature within the magazine and the shape worked really well against the background. In order to create this aspect, we used the shape tool on Photoshop to create the circle, and then placed the text inside it after deciding to go for ’50 ultimate horror films of 2009’ as we thought this coincided with genre of our film well. After experimenting with different effect we could use on the circle, we decided to have the same red colour used in the title for the outline of the circle, giving it a slight glow effect and then for the inside, we thought we would use white so the text was visible and also used another effect called 'Bubble shadow' which gave a glowing effect in the middle, and then gradually got darker around the edges of the circle. We were really pleased with how this turned out and decided to have it in the same place as on the Iron Man 2 cover, just slightly overlapping the end of the title.
We then created the ‘Talbur Manor’ title, and we used the same two colour effect that we had used on our film poster, to have ‘Talbur’ in red and ‘Manor’ in white. The use of the box around the tagline on the Iron Man poster we thought was a really good idea and made the text more noticeable. We created the same effect on Photoshop using the shape tools and thought that they way they looked together worked really well.
The final part of the magazine cover was to create the main image. We had already decided that Chloe was going to be the only person on the cover and that this should work well. As the images of Chloe on the trailer were too blurry to use, we took some more pictures at school. We and took a number of different pictures from different angles and after looking through them, we decided to use the picture of her just looking straight at the camera. We then uploaded this onto Photoshop and began cutting out all the background behind Chloe. We found this quite a time consuming task and we definitely realised you need a steady hand! Once this was cut out, we darkened the image slightly using one of the tools and then placed the image and our cover was finished!
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