Task 20: Editing process Magazine cover

This is our finished Magazine cover

This is our evidence for our editing process

First of all we went to our photography studio at school and took a variety of photos of our main actresses from our movie 'Boundless' in different positions. By having many options this allowed us to pick the best one. We chose this one because it captures the main theme of our film which is romance. We were inspired by other Entertainment film magazine covers that also use their main characters showing a positive relationship. In this photo you can see that we had individually cropped each letter and placed it behind layer 1 which was the image of Isobel and Adara. We used the Quick selection tool to select Isobel and Adara then used refine edge to soften out any rough edges, we used this tool to select Isobel's hair to create defined detail in the photo. We copied and pasted this selection to create a new layer to go over the top of 'Entertainment'. 

To be able for our film title 'Boundless' to be the same colour at the magazines name 'Entertainment' we had to use the eye drop tool which selected the same red to use. This gave it a professional appearance not looking rushed and messy.

We decided to take ideas from other 'Entertainment' magazines on what to write on the front cover. We thought adding 'Exclusive Interview' with the stars of our film would be a good way of attracting our target audience as it would be a personal and up close moment for fans of the film. We chose to put the words 'Exclusive Interview' in a cream/brownish box as that is what most Entertainment magazines did. For the words to stand out as it was an important message.

  

Again from searching for many entertainment magazines we found they appeared to have a sticker that would announce an important message that appeared inside the magazine. This would attract audience members to buy it. We added a similar small circle as drawing a circle and filling it in with a dark grey was easy and gave it an extra touch making it appear more professional.

 

We then added a spotted outline and words that were thinner than any other font to add contrast in our magazine.

 For our magazine to look realistic we added a price of £2.99 and a barcode which was found on google images.

We also added at date from when it had been published to when it expires.

For our actresses to be known for their name and not just faces we added their name in a smaller print as well. Most of 'Entertainments' magazines have the actor's name somewhere on the front page for information of readers.

We also needed to add something in the bottom left corner as it seemed slightly bare. So we added a question that relates to our theme. 

However, the red colour didn't work so we used the brownish box to go behind the words and changed the font colour to white for it to stand out yet still fit the theme colours that we had used throughout the whole process.