Magazine Front Cover Process

Here is the beginning of the magazine process. Firstly I looked at the different fonts on http://www.dafont.com/ which I then chose three fonts for the different sections on the magazine:

Dafont fonts -
Media Blackout - Main Titles
AppleBerry - Sub Headings
London - Small Text

I then looked at the other features of a magazine these inculded a main image, the title of the film with tag line and the magzine in big font, other films and little tag lines to join them, also other pictures and the barcode/issue number/price/date.

I began to build these up slowly, also to make the magazine look recent I looked at this website which gives all the upcoming films for 2012 .
http://www.movieinsider.com/movies/-/2012/

After choosing these things I picked out the two images I was going to use as the background, this displays an idea of what genre and then the two main characters that will star within the magazine.

I also chose another photo for a smaller story that we will be using to convey another story, this is an image I took whilst in New Zealand and it is the signpost that has Hobbiton written upon it. I'm not allowed to use/show the full image due to the film (The Hobbit) not being released yet, when visiting the set we are not allowed to show the full set after signing a contract.

 I then had to change the colour scheme due to the background images being quite dark so that the font won't be seen. I have chosen Red, White and Yellow to convey the text to keep the magazine simple but also make everything written visible.

After placing everything upon the background and formed the magazine cover, I began to tweak the little things that were noticaeable and didn't look right these included the main image of the two main characters who looked slightly orange so we used the auto colour tool to make them look more skin coloured. With this image I also went around the outline of the two characters as you could see the cutting out from the original image, so I made that less noticeable. I also had to change one of the fonts due to it being too thin and not very noticeable upon the background. The change was from "Edifice thin" to "London" so that they were thick enough and are easier to see. We also made the celluloid film reel stand out more by making it lighter.

As I had a space on the top right of the magazine I decided to add a sticker after looking at other magazine that also do it.

Therefore the magazine is filled however it doesn't look cluttered and the theme is still simplistic but catches the eye of the reader.