Final Front Cover

Final Film Poster

Final Double page article

Double page progress 2

I then added the text to the page. I originally had the text just on the page in paragraphs however I thought it would look better and more like an article if it was set out in columns. Since my review included spoilers I added this at the top to warn readers.

Double Page progress

Images for my double page

 

Final Magazine Cover

Main Story Hook

Since the Mockingjay review was the most important story hook I wanted it to be centred on the magazine and have the largest font. I used the font from the actual movie on the cover. I did this as the font and colour of the text is already identified with the movie therefore it is easily recognisable to fans.

Banner

When looking at existing magazines I noticed a lot of them have a banner at the bottom of the cover. I found a style model from Empire magazine(Top Image) which had a banner at the bottom of the magazine. I liked the layout of this one so I used it as a guideline for mine(Bottom image.) I added celebrity names that would be included in the magazine. This attracts a wider audience as fans of these actors/actresses will want to purchase the magazine.

Story Hooks

My magazine needed story hooks from other articles that could potentially be in the magazine. I added these story hooks on the right side of the image. At first I had the story hooks at either side of the image however I found that it covered too much of the main image so I placed it all on one side of the cover. I wanted a range of colours for this to make the text really stand out. It was difficult to use red as it is the colour of her clothing so when I tried this the text wasn't clear enough however I wanted to use more colours than black and white. I still wanted the colour of the text to fit with the colour scheme to I used the colour picker tool on Photoshop. I could see hints of orange in Katniss's outfit so the colour picker tool allowed me to pick up that colour from the image and use it for my text. This meant the colour still linked in with the main image as it was picked from the image itself.

Magazine cover progress

Images considered for my cover

  These are all of the images I looked at and considered when looking for he image for my cover

Total Film Masthead

 

 

I began by getting the masthead for my magazine. I wanted my magazine to be apart of Total film so I went to Google images and used their logo. I used Total Film for my Masthead as it is a well known popular film magazine so I thought it would work well with my magazine.

 

Final poster

Front cover image continued

I continued to look for an image that I could use on my cover from Google. I found another image I liked as it is Jennifer Lawrence in character and I preferred the colours on this image is I thought it would make my cover brighter. However when I looked at this image I thought I may have the same problems as I did with the previous one as it is a similar colour to the background. I kept looking an managed to find the same image without the coloured background so used this for my cover.

 

Front cover images

To start my magazine cover I looked on Google for the image I would use for the cover. I wanted an image that showed Jennifer Lawrence as her character. I first chose this photo as the image I wanted for my cover.
 When cutting out the image from the background I found that the image background was too similar to the colours she was wearing in the photo and it was too dark, therefore I wouldn't be able to use it on my cover and would have to find another image.

magazine cover example

I had a look at existing magazine covers to get an idea of what I wanted mine to look like. To do this I found a cover from Empire magazine which featured Mockingjay Part1 on the cover. When looking at the image i liked how the main character of the film, Katniss, was represented on the cover so I know this is something I would like to have on mine.

Examples of existing Civil War posters

Here are some examples of the existing posters for this film that I looked at. I wanted to look at existing posters of this film to get an idea on how the film is being presented so I can get my poster to look as real as possible.

Film Poster development seven

To finish off my poster I wanted to add a slogan at the top of the poster.
When looking into Existing posters for this film I found one with the slogan "Who's side are you on?" I chose this one for my poster as I felt this slogan draws the audience into the poster by the slogan being a rhetorical question. It makes to audience want to go and see the film so they can make their own decisions about the film. I also thought this linked in well with the image as both teams are shows on the poster. I put the slogan in red and blue as these are the colours used to represent Captain America and Iron Man so I wanted to keep with the colour scheme.

Film poster development six

I added the final images onto my poster my separating the existing characters onto their sides. When adding my images onto the poster I had to position them well by arranging some images above or below others.
With Captain America and Iron Man I Positioned Iron Man in front of Captain America to give it the allusion that Iron Man is holding Captain America back.

Film poster development five

After changing my image to a larger page I had more room to add other characters onto the page.
This is my poster so far.

Film poster development four

When adding more characters to my poster I decided that having a single page for the whole page was too small. To fix this I decided to change my poster to a double page.
When moving what I had already done to a double page I share both pages on the screen and dragged the features I had already don't onto the new page.
When doing this I came to a problem, because the page was double the size what I had already done wouldn't fit onto this page.
To fix this page I tried the make the background image and the fire image bigger however when doing this it made the images pixelated.
On Photoshop I found a blur tool which I had never used before. To fix this problem I copied both images on either size of the page and used the blur tool to blur them together to make it look as if it is one whole image.

This is how i dragged the features from one page to the other.

film poster development three

I cut out all of my images from the background. I placed Captain Americas team on the right side of the page and Iron Mans team on the left side of the page.
Every film poster has the films release date so I added this at the top of my poster.
When looking at existing posters for the film I looked at the try of fonts used for the posters. I tried to find one which was similar on 1001 fonts.
It was important that I put the "Marvel" logo above the name to let the audience know it is a Marvel movie.













This is an example of the Civil War font from the actual film:

My Presentation

character Images

 

Film poster development two

I collected all the images of the characters that I thought I would need from Google. Once I had all of the images I started to cut them out of the backgrounds to put on my poster. I started with the two main characters; Captain America and Iron Man. I used the magic eraser tool to cut out all of the characters from the backgrounds and used the normal eraser tool to remove any of the leftover background. I also wanted a fire effect to be at the bottom of  the poster. To do this I also took a photo from Google. I cut out the part I wanted and put it at the bottom of my poster. I used the clone stamp to change the shape of the image by copying and pasting different parts of the image with the clone stamp tool.

This is the updated poster

Film poster develop

To start off my film poster I need a background for my poster. I had vague image in my head of how I wanted to poster too look and be set out therefore I tried to find an image on Google which matches the background image I had as my initial idea. I found an image of dark clouds which I thought was the perfect background for my poster. I decided to use Photoshop to create my poster as I have experience with the software and thought I would be able to make a better quality poster using this software. I created my background by cutting a part of the image out and put it on an A4 layout on Photoshop. I wanted all main characters to be on the poster and the layout to be all of the characters in their teams however I wanted the team to be broken up by a lightning bolt. To create the lightning bolt on the image I used a photo from Google. Once I had the image I used the magic eraser tool on Photoshop to leave me with just the lighting bolt and remove the background however when I did this I found that this tool removed part of the lighting bolt too as the colours were too similar and the lines were too fine. To solve this problem I used the normal eraser tool and tried to remove the background as best as possible.


This is the image that I used for the background

This is the image I used for the lightning bolt



This is my poster so far

Film poster

As my magazine is a film magazine I am going to create an film poster for the upcoming Marvel film 'Civil War.' I am going to post the developing stages of the advert and explain the reasons I have chosen to do or change features of the advert. To start off I have looked at existing adverts for this film to ensure my advert looks like it suits the style of existing ones. These are a few examples of existing adverts I looked at...

Welcome

Hello!
Welcome to my extended project blog. For my extended project I am creating 3 parts of a magazine, this will include:

• A front cover
• An advert
• A double page spread

On this blog I will post the progress and development of my final project and how I created all three parts.