My Film Magazine Progress

These following screenshots show the creative process for my magazine:

Firstly I opened a plain A4 document to being the process of my film magazine. I changed the background colour to black because I wanted to add red and white text so I that the dark background would contrast well with the text and to  make it stand out to the audience. I then added the magazines title, 'The Reel', which I thought sounded professional. I went on Dafont.com in order to download this for as it didn't think any of the font styles on photoshop looked effective for a magazines header. 

I then inserted the magazines tagline, 'The ultimate movie magazine',  I think that this will persuade the audience to buy the magazine. I decided to highlight the words, 'ultimate' and 'movie' in red to show the audience the genre of the magazine (film), and I also thought that it looked effective. I used the font, 'Bebas Neue Regular' I am also going to be using this font for my cover lines to give the magazine a sense of continuity. I then added a small image of a barcode on the bottom left hand side as most magazines have a barcode on the cover.

I added a shape to the cover to give the magazine some dimension. I used the rectangle tool to create this red shape, and I then used the free transform tool to rotate the shape so that it is slightly diagonal, I then added the text, 'Exclusives inside' in black and put it over the red rectangle as I knew that this would automatically make the text stand out. It is in the same font that I have used for the tag line.

Then I added another rectangle but in white with black and red text on top of it. I have highlighted one part of text in red like I have done with the tagline because I think this looks effective. This text informs the audience of the magazines date, the issue number and the price of the magazine, all of these are vital features that need to be on the cover. 

I then added my cover lines onto the magazine again using a red and white font as this is my desired colour scheme.  I made the red cover lines to the size 45pt and the white text to 42pt so that the main cover lines would stand out to the audience and draw their attention to the main exciting articles inside the magazine which would make them want to buy the magazine.

I then started to add the main cover line using the font, 'badi MT Condensed Extra Bold Regular' then I also added a CD to the top right hand corner and added the text, 'The worlds best film reviews'. As I thought that the magazine needed an extra feature rather than just cover lines.

I then added the rest of the cover line using the same font as the text, 'Double', by using a white text to give the magazine some dimension whilst still sticking to my colour scheme of red and white text.

I then added another rectangular shape and placed it under the main cover line to make it stand out and draw the audiences attention to it and I then added the bevel and emboss effect to.

I then added the my main cover image of the main character in the film trailer and then increased the images exposure and used the curves tools to enhance the pictures vibrance.

I then added another cover line at the bottom of the left hand side of the poster because I thought that it looked empty.

I then decided to remove the image of the CD because I don't think it was needed.

By using the layer style tool I added the bevel and emboss effect to make the word, 'Double' look more three dimensional, helping it to stand out more effectively. I then decided to change the masthead font to, 'Lemon Milk' which I downloaded from daft.com. I thought that the original font that I had used looked like it was for a horror genre magazine and lemon milk looked more suitable for my film magazine.

I then added another image and placed it over the top of the first image to show the two sides of Riven (the main character in the trailer). The image portrays her as being half un attractive and the other more well presented, this fits in with the narrative of the plot of our trailer when Riven has a makeover and transforms from ugly to attractive. This image shows Riven before and after the makeover in just one image. I changed the brightness of this image by using the brightness tool and then I used the curves tool to enhance its vibrance. I then also added a cover line regarding the character in the main cover image. This is the overall finished film magazine.