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In order to create an effective, conventional magazine, it was essential that I selected a suitable image to be displayed at the front of my magazine cover. I had decided that the magazine cover should feature a medium angle shot of the main character, Jenna Johnson therefore I had started to gather and analyse each image I had of the actress and in the end decided that the image displayed above was the most suitable to use. The combination of the bloodied circles under her white coloured eyes and expressionless face, allowed a very dark and unsettling mood to be conveyed. Furthermore, the medium-angle shot of the actress is important as it allows the audience to be view the details on the actress' face such as her colourless eyes and blood dripping face. This overall makes clear to the audience that the film being displayed is of the horror genre as blood is a common convention of the horror genre.
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I then decided to create a rough textured effect on the face of the character to convey a possessed and paranormal look. In order to create such a look, I went onto Google Images to find specific pictures of the cracked Earth. Once I found a suitable image, I inserted it onto Photoshop and then placed it on specific areas of the character's face such as her forehead, cheeks and neck. However, I came to realise that I needed to make the cracked skin look more realistic therefore I started to experiment with its opacity and decided that a 12% opacity was the most suitable to use in order to create this specific effect.
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Firstly, I moved on to create the masthead of my magazine cover. Within my previous post, I created a mind map where I presented different ideas of what I would wish to name my magazine cover and in which type of font I wished to present it. I had ultimately decided to name the masthead of my magazine, 'THE ODEUM'. I believe that this specific title is suitable for my masthead because the word 'odeum' itself means a theatre or concert hall. This direct link to film is significant as just by purely looking at the masthead of the magazine, the audience automatically realise that this is a film magazine publication. Moreover, I placed the masthead directly at the top centre of the magazine cover in extremely large white coloured sans serif font called 'The Next Font’. The bold, clear and professional looking typography along with its bright white colour is a significant factor in grabbing the audience’s attention from afar as the white nicely compliments the dark coloured background, overall allowing it to stand out.
Secondly, I decided to create a skyline which read the words ‘THE BIGGEST MOVIE PREVIEW EVER!’. This is as during the researching period I had found that it is an extremely common factor for magazine covers to feature a skyline at the top of their magazine cover which says a specific, attractive statement which I decided to translate into my own work. I decided to separate the words ‘ biggest’ and ‘preview’ by using a deep red colour in order to highlight this specific aspect to the audience.
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As conveyed within the image above, the main colour scheme of my magazine cover are the colours; black, red and white which are all common conventions of the horror genre. I had decided to use the colour white to display the cover lines of the magazine as not only did the writing stand out in contrast to the dark background however also because it matched the colour of masthead and character's eyes therefore following a common theme.
On the bottom left of the magazine cover, I then made a sort of a context page in a neat manner; with each word presented in the same font style, colour, size and position in order to convey a professional and neat look. However, for specific words and phrases, I decided to use a deep red coloured font, separate to the rest of the magazine, in order to make them stand out in comparison to the rest of the text on the magazine cover. This is in order for the audience to capture words such as 'exclusives' or 'on set with' instantly to give them an insight of what is going to be featured within the inside of the magazine. Furthermore, with permission from another group within my class, I had inserted an image from a scene of their trailer and placed it on the right hand side of the cover. In order to make it slightly stand out, I changed the blending options for the image and created a slight outer glow.
Looking back at the research I had previously conducted, I realised that another common convention of a magazine cover is a button. When analysing previous magazine covers, I had come to realise that traditionally the colour of the button completely differs from the rest of the colours on the page. In order to reflect this into my own work, I decided to create a gold button outlined with a white border stating 'JAWS; EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW". The colour of the button did not follow the red, white and black colour scheme, however the golden colour used still complimented the rest of the colours on the page. In order to further make it stand out I created a drop shadow behind the button which overall gave it a more rounded and 3D effect. Furthermore, I decided to use the colour gold as the colour holds connotations to words such as such as luxury and quality which could imply to the audience that they will benefit from purchasing in this magazine.
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Lastly, to complete the magazine cover, I added the essential final touches such the barcode, price, issue number, date and website in order to bring the whole magazine together. It was important that the date, issue number and website were in an extremely small font size in comparison to the rest of the text on the page therefore I had to change it to 48.58 pt.
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