The last big change that I made to my magazine front cover was to use the offical logo from my film trailer as the 'Secret' title. Despite this font working well in my trailer, it was a bit thin for my magazine front cover, it also clashed with the pattern on the actresses top. To resolve this issue I used photoshop the get the black glow outline on the font and this made it stand out a lot more. Also moved the barcode to the top of the page because it fitted with the conventions of most Empire magazines.
I decided to incorporate further influence from my trailer as I felt that it was lacking meaning and relation to my other products. I am still unsure on the image in her pupil, I have reduce the opacity to make it look more realistic to an actual reflection in a person's eye but I feel that it is unclear as to what it is when the image is zoom out to its normal dimensions.
"The main title text could be a little larger as it can become lost in the picture. If you set a small black line around the text it can make it stand out more."
Since my last draft, I have added the issue information with pricing for UK and USA as Empire magazine itself is sold in both of the counties but primarily the UK. All of the red text on the front cover is to match the masthead to give it a stronger house style. The titles I used for my 'feature articles' are just titles of films that a being release around the same time as my own film would have been, this was to give the magazine a more realistic feel. The choice of text placement and style was inspired from a previous Empire magazine front cover as I felt the main images were in similar placements so it worked well to avoid overcrowding.
I have decided to use an existing magazine masthead to make it look more like a real magazine and more professional. I have decided to make the font I have added so far the same colour as the masthead to give it a stronger house style, it also stands out a lot on the front cover as I have lots of dull contrasting colours in the background.
I haven't used any filter on this image, the shadows were created from natural window light as it made her skin look more natural and less ghostly. The studio lights completely washed her out and hid all of her freckles which I didn't want to hide. I then did a similar technique to this image as I did with my film poster; I used a brush with fades edges to colour in the background, the side with shadows in black and the highlighted side in white. This was to hide the background but to also keep the continuity running through both pieces.
As I broke common conventions with the placement of my film title, I decided to still to convention with my bottom credits and logo. This mainly due to them being slighting more difficult to read anyway so I avoided any more difficultly from an awkward placement. I also changed the font again on my film title because I felt the other one was too thick and bulky. I felt that this one was a lot easier to read and looks more professional. I have decided to leave a lot more empty space as I felt that I didn't want my poster to be overcrowded. The blank space also adds and eerie feel to my poster and this is an atmosphere that I want portray throughout my entire poster. However, I didn't want it to be obvious through weapons and blood splatters, I wanted it to be subtle and almost psychological, so it can play on the audiences mind rather than be completely cliche.
The current stage that my poster is at is my adding the film title. I am doing this first as it is the most important element of a film poster, besides the main image. The reason my title isn't in the traditional placement of the centre of the image is because I wanted to break this convention, to give my poster a unique look. It was also a lot easier to read the title itself as WOB (white on black) stands out the most when it comes to bold titles. An issue I had to change was the chosen font, my original font choice was a downloadable font from 1001fonts.com and because of issues out of my control I was no longer able to use this font and therefore resulted in me having to use this one.
Second image has had the brightness altered to take away some of the harsh light, that was reflecting on the skin. I then experimented with the hue and saturation to give the impression of more controlled lighting. I also added extra freckles to the forehead to make it look more solid.
Finally, I took a brush tool and covered up the background to make the character stand out more against the white background. I then blurred away any imperfection but enhanced the dry lips (which were from a cold) as I felt the added more atmosphere to the connotations of the image itself.
