Description of magazine cover

As you can view from our magazine cover, it has changed from our plan. We had to use a different picture as mentioned, due to the fact that the one we was going to use was not the right size. We also tried to cut out the background of this picture on photoshop, we managed to do this through the use of the lasoo tool, this was quite complicated due to the fact that we had wine glasses on a beige background and that the sun was shining through the doors which affected the table. After we had cut this out we decided that it wasnt going to work well so decided to use this image. Looking at it now, we see that this image has more of an impact as we can see the Father and daughter in a medium shot facing the camera, we can clearly see their facial expressions through this image and the fact that there is a lack of love between the two. As you can see, this is a different photograph to what we used for our poster advertising our film.

One more thing...

As you can also see, one of the subheadings part covers two of the letters of the title through the word 'film', this is due to the fact that people can still see what it is called and when looking at other magazine front covers and analysing these, it was clear for us to see that other magazines do in fact do this.

Further Improvements

When looking at this new improved magazine cover, I still felt as though there was something missing, therefore, around the bottom picture, I entered the same auto shape behind it to make the image stand out more and I also created a thick red boarder to give the magazine more feel and a bolder look.

Changes to Magazine Cover

When looking at our magazine cover, it became clear to us that the way in which it was set out was very bland and we just was not happy with its overall appearance, therefore, we have had to totally re - design this and change many features, such the fact that we no longer have a white background, instead, as you can see above, this is now black, black is a strong colour and it really makes the writing and images over it stand out. We have also changed the colour of the number '4' in the title, this is due to the fact that the grey looked more subtle and realistic against the black background. For the picture, we have again used a background, through the use of the basic shapes, but this time a square shape as this looks better with the sqaure cut photograph. We have inserted the writing through the use of 'wordart' and have used the same type of font throughout as this is more affective. Over the main picture, advertising our film, we have put the words 'EXCLUSIVE SILENT MOVIE', over the top of the image, really making it stand out.

Magazine front cover with date price and barcode

This is now our magazine front cover with a date, barcode and price to our magazine in the bottom right hand corner, to make it again even more realistic.

Magazine cover with images

This is our magazine cover with our photographs that we took, we had to change the image that we was going to use as the other one was too long for this magazine structure. We had to change the way that the images looked to give the magazine more structure. Therefore, we slotted in two different basic shapes that fitted in with the three predominant colours of red, black and white. We also changed our top picture from colour into black and white to fit in with our film.

This is our completed magazine front cover without the pictures, and just all the words. We have kept to the colour codes of black, white and red, we made 'coming soon to a cinema near you' read because it is one of the most important parts. The extra text we have added in about other news is less important to the main feature - the film, therefore has been put in a smaller font size and in black so it is the last thing you look at.

We have made the magazine title, the mast head and the subtitle the biggest or most colourful to make sure its the first thing to catch the readers eye. We may have to re-arrange the text when we add the pictures in depending on where everything is placed, however we are confident it will work out well.

We are also confident we will complete our magazine by the 10th of November as we just need to cut our pictures out and place them in.