Final Magazine Cover

This is our final magazine cover that we have all decided on. As you can see we have chose to use one of the photographs taken outside as we all felt that it was more effective as it helps build more sense of a chase, worry and also we think our audience may sympathise with her more as she looks vulnerable. We liked how she is looking over her shoulder as if she is running away from someone and also is a change to the typical 'gaze' seen in mostly editorial fashion magazines. Even though she isn't looking straight at the camera we think she still engages with the audience because she is facing us and they are intrigued to know what she is looking at. I particularly like the background of this photo as we can see car headlights from the traffic passing and the street lights. I think this implies that it is a shot our film and it advertising the film more than just the actress. I also think the blur and shadow created shows a sense of movement which adds to the threatening atmosphere. 

    When editing the photo we made small adjustments such as one of the headlights was too bright and very close to her face under her ear as you can see . To  remove this I used the clone tool on Photoshop so it looked like it was never there. We also decided to air brush her face slightly. We did this by using the gaussian blur effect on the photo but on a different layer and then erased sections such as her eyes, nose, hair, mouth and ears. As the original layer is underneath you can see what parts to erase and how it looks. It still looks realistic and her features are in focus but her skin looks smoother.  We also used the clone tool again on areas such as her coat to remove things like coat poppers and also made parts of her zip darker so it wasn't so prominent in the photo. 

When we put the writing we had already done over the top of the photo we thought it fitted well as she is in the centre of the cover and the writing surrounds her. We have developed the magazine further as well as we changed the font of some or our writing, the size, the colour and also added more text in as we felt it needed slightly more to be more appealing to our audience and eye-catching. We also added small things like the magazine website address and issue number as it is a convention of magazine cover. To balance out the appearance of the cover we decided to add a ribbon to the bottom. This is bullet points of other films that are going to be coming out and are spoken about in the magazine.