HOW THE MAGAZINE COVER

WAS MADESHIVANI MOHAN

1)Firstly I opened up the image on Adobe Photoshop. I then used the blur tool as seen on the left hand side tool bar to blur out the back ground. I did this as it made the colours on the characters stand out against the background and I wanted to follow a similar consistency as I has done the exact same for the film poster and it made the film poster look really good.

Before After

2)I then added a brightness and contrast layer to enhance the colours on the poster as it was a convention I found from my target audience that in this type of genre my target audience look out for bright colours. I decreased the brightness and increased the contrast of the image by doing the following steps below and this is the before and after.

3)Once I was happy with the background image, the next stage I did was started to add the text. I added the masthead first in big bold red writing so it can be seen clearly and I could get an idea of how much room it would take up.

I then added on the header onto the image which I deliberately made orange as I know this is a very vibrant colour and I wanted our magazine to stand out from all the rest. Also the colour of the basket ball has a hint of orange and therefore go really well together. I then added black writing on it which has been split up via white lines.

4)I then added the title of the film ‘The Old Generation’ in big black letters as it stands out really well against the background. I placed it on the left hand side near the bottom third.

I then added a block on the right hand side to add some colour on the magazine and put text on it in the colour blue which stood out and worked well together.

5)I then starting to add the majority of the text onto my magazine cover, I added the text that goes above and below the title of the film which also includes the name of the main character in the image. I put the name in big red writing as it matches the masthead and is the next thing on a magazine cover which should be seen big and clearly.

I then added more text i.e. the date and website URL of the magazine which I placed below the masthead as it a convention to place it underneath the masthead. I then added some more text on the right hand side in fairly big letters so it can’t be seen clearly and catches the audience attention.

6)I then added the price and a tag block near the bottom of the magazine on the right hand size. The block was white and writing was black and this is so the price and issue of the filmfare magazine can be clearly seen.

I then added more text onto the right hand side in black to fill in the gaps there were and to follow the convention of having a left third.

7)Next I added a quote near the top of the magazine as I found that this was a good convention to use as it adds more visual and attraction to the magazine cover. I also added some text one below it to fill in the gaps there were but its also text that you would usually see on a film magazine.I added them both in red to add contrast to the colour scheme as the majority of the writing is black. I then added all the rest of the text that needed to be on he magazine. I added more text near the bottom right of the page and on the left hand side of the page as there was alot of free space that could have been used better and I did this in black, burgundy and orange as it matches the colours that have already been used on the magazine cover so far.

8)The magazine is now finished and here is the before (intial image I had for the magazine) and the after (after editing the image to make it look like a real magazine cover).

Before After