Anciliary text front cover screen shots

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Firstly I chose the paper as international paper, this size is a conventional front cover magazine size. I then duplicated the layer so that I can change the background colour to black, I did this by choosing effects and then colour over lay. By doing this I’ve already reached This is a basic font of my film trailers name, I will soon edit to a font and style I like and perhaps make it bigger. I did this by just pressing on the ‘T’ icon

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Firstly I chose the paper as international paper, this size is a conventional front cover magazine size. I then duplicated the layer so that I can change the background colour to black, I did this by choosing effects and then colour over lay. By doing this I’ve already reached the conventions of a horror/ thriller magazine .

This is a basic font of my film trailers name, I will soon edit to a font and style I like and perhaps make it bigger. I did this by just pressing on the ‘T’ icon

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Pristina – 36p Viner Hand – 36P

Traditional Arabic – 36p Mistral - 36p

Informal Roman- 36p These are some of the fonts I really like and I could potentially use these fonts for my tag line. I believe they all meet the conventions of a horror genre and it will look more creepier after I’ve designed it to the style I want.

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I then stroked the 2nd text in a reddish/brown colour and also contoured it.

With my 3rd text I left it as white but put a Inner shadow inside to give it more of a 3D effect.

At first I stroked the main text with an orange colour. This is an iconic colour for Halloween. Also the text size is 48 and fits perfectly across the page.

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I have positioned my tag line at nearly the bottom of the page inspired by EMPIRE magazine.

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I want my actresses name to feature because it could demonstrate that she’s new in the film industry and no one her just yet hence her name is being featured. It could also be that she’s a successful star like Tom Cruise. Featuring the name is way of promotion.

As you can see here I’ve already put a barcode on. I might change it but this is just to help me figure my text size. However this is also a conventional feature for a front cover.

Also the name that’s being featured is the same style as the film name to keep the continuity flowing.

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For the sky line I used the font Cooper STD because I have noticed that the fonts used are usually big and bold to appeal to the audience instantly. Also because it’s a pug and therefore needs to be catchy. As you can see here I changed the colour of the font and stroke inside the tagline into purple. This is because the picture I will use to feature on the front cover, the make up of the girls would be purple. I didn’t want the orange to look odd because it’s an iconic Halloween colour. As you can also see, I’ve changed the word ‘covers’ to ‘posters’ because I felt as if it didn’t make sense and also because posters are a freebie in almost any magazine. In the real film magazine of Empire; there’s two different colours used in the skyline. This could be to demonstrate the importance of the ‘FREE POSTERS’. I also wanted to demonstrate the importance of my limited edition posters by changing the colour to purple to match my colour theme.

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In here I added the conventional plus sign like seen the Empire magazine. However my plus sign is purple. I also added sell lines in white, this colour contrasts the black background nicely. But I don’t like the font ‘Modern No. 20’ so I’m going to change it to something more simple like seen in the Empire magazine. Photos

I can’t decide if I should put the text; ‘exclusive interview’ on top of the actresses name or beneath it. I also wrote the text in the Cooper STD font same as the skylines font but I stroked it with purple and also put a black shadow in to give it that 3D effect.

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As you can see here I’m working on my masthead and trying out different fonts. At first I used was called Algerian and this is so that I can get the same effect as the picture I put a white shape around. The stroke was orange to keep my theme running. I am inspired to create a masthead with the directors board design inside my font to make it more professional.

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I tried to develop my masthead in the font; Algerian. I used a red stroke and made the font bigger in size 100. I also gave it shadow so it looks more 3D. I then used a purple stroke to see which one looks better and I personally think purple looks better.

This font is Berlin Sans, I like it because it’s bold and big.

I also like this font; Cooper Black. I also matched it to the sky line however I find these fonts too simple. I want something more professional.

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Here I left the stroke and shadow from previous and changed the colour from white to purple. As you can see in the Empire magazine the colour of the plus sign is the same as the masthead. Therefore it’s necessary for me to keep that convention going.

I then changed the font of the actresses name in to footlight MT light because I wanted to see how the cover looks when it’s simple. If I’m honest I quite like the name in white and the font size small because it looks simple and clean. As seen on the Entertainment magazine; Johnny Depp’s name is in white across the front cover and therefore I’m slowly meeting the conventions of a film front cover.

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As you can see here, I’ve changed theColour of the masthead from purple to white but left my purple stroke.As I want to design the masthead with the directors board effects.

I saved a spotlight picture from google because I wanted to experiment how it would look with yellow spotlights around the masthead. I’m not really liking it.

I started to fill the bottom of the masthead with spotlights to see if it looks any better. However I’m still not keen on this design.

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I then selected all the spotlight layers and then used the vertical tool, so that the spotlight is on top of the masthead as they’re usually above of everything.

I then got rid of my tag line and changed the font of the masthead to Rockwell extra in size 90.

I started to move the cover lines around the page to see what looks better and I quite like it like this. On the empire magazine I am inspired by, the plus sign is on the left side of the magazine.

This is the colour wheel which will help me in my colour theme for the magazine. As you can see on this wheel the colour that contrasts purple is yellow. However I might use orange because it’s an iconic colour for Halloween and also stands out from the front cover.

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I wanted light effects around my text like this

But instead I watched a YouTube tutorial on how to get a light effect on text And I ended up doing this. To do this I clicked on the ‘Filter’ icon then blur and then radial blur I then got options on how much blur I wanted so chose the amount of blur; 21, Method; zoom and the quality best. And this is the result.

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As you can see here, I’ve used the selection tool and the spot healing brush tool to make her skin appear smoother.

I wanted her face to be very sharp and wanted it to give the maleficent effect so I got a brush tool in the colour white, put the opacity down to highlight her cheekbones. To blend the highlights in I used the filter tool, blur and then Radial blur.

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I then cropped her out but I found cropping her hair out very difficult So I had to use the patch tool and fill in the gaps of missing hair. I also drew over her lips the same colour as my sky line and the plus sign. This will make her lips look fuller and the face look sharper. To make it look natural I had to draw shadows on the lips and then blur it out so it the shade blends in.

I also changed her eye colour by using a paint brush. To do this I had to put the opacity down to 12% so that it looks natural and not fake. Inspired by the empire magazine, the eye colour matches the theme of the magazine. There’s also a change in her eyebrows; I didn’t fill them in properly so I used a paint brush again detected the original colour and shaped them and filled them in again.

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I then filtered the picture black and white because I wanted to see how it would look with the purple eyes and lips just in colour. To do this I had to filter it first and then draw on the lips on top of the actual lips and moving the layer on top of the filter layer. For the eyes I had to un-filter the picture again, I used the lasso tool cut out the eyes and moved the layer on top of the black and white layer. I then filtered the picture back to black and white.

I also fixed her eyeliner because it’s a bit dodgy. To do this I used a paint brush in a small size and put the opacity as this allows me to go over the lines as many times as I want and it also matches the black and white level.

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After my research I finalised the price as £4 because in reality film magazines are very expensive and because a lot of people had chosen £2-£4 in my questionnaire. In the empire magazine front cover the price and date is always in the masthead of the letter ‘M’. At first I didn’t have an alphabet that had enough space so I put the price and date above the masthead on the right an side. However I didn’t like the look of it so I made the font smaller in the font CoridaUPC and placed it inside the ‘O’ the second alphabet in the masthead like seen on the second alphabet ‘M’ of the empire magazine.

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As you can see here I have added posters above the masthead like this empire magazine. I didn’t have any new pictures so I couldn't create another poster so instead I put it at the bottom with a shape on it.

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I then out a glow on the plus sign so that it stands out more. Although it looks grey that is because it’s white but the opacity is down. I also made the ‘exclusive interview’ bigger in scale and made the actors name bigger in size so that it looks fuller.

I also added another cover line of my film title. This chosen font of my film title is in Lucida handwriting and that is because in my film trailer this font has also been used. This technique is called synergy. The tag line ‘Reveals..’ is in the same font as the cover line ‘Zoe Kennington’ this is so that I keep the continuity as I’ve already used 3 different fonts already.

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Here I added another cover line. The font is the same as my other cover line and was inspired by Empire magazine but instead my number is used to count all the reviews. The 30 has also got a white glow to keep the continuity with the plus sign and the plug at the bottom. I also added this tag line on the right side because when it’s piled on shelves people will only see the right side of the magazine so the cover line has to be appealing.

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As you can see here I’ve added the price and date above the barcode because it wasn’t noticeable. I then added text in the sphere shape like seen in the empire front cover I added a 2 in bold text so that the audience are appealed by it.

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