Magazine Cover.

Previously Joey and I had looked at a couple of different movie magazine covers such as Fangoria Magazine and Mad Magazine. Comparing them both, one is more commercial, looking as if the character is posing for the camera, whereas the other looks like a shot from the actual movie. We decided to make ours look more commercial, but keep the atmosphere and theme of the film.
Our original picture looked like this:

Originally this picture was too light for a horror movie magazine and the sides around the cast were too big. So, in photoshop, we cropped the image and using the brush tool, coloured it in all black. We then made the black opaque so the image looked darker.

After this, it was beginning to look a bit more like a horror magazine cover. We then needed to think about all the other aspects of a magazine cover. Things like the title, masthead, font, barcode etc. 

We came up with a few different names for the magazine such as:

• Dark News
• Horror Times
• Terrible Teeth
• The Lost Limb
• Mean Movies

We liked the idea of having using alliteration, so chose to use 'The Lost Limb' to be the title of our magazine cover.

As our image is very similar to a 50's horror cover, and slightly resembles a scooby-doo cover we wanted our font to be very bold and striking. This is why we chose this font and decided to have it in red. 

All of our decisions were made and then changed due to audience feedback we received. This is in a video in another post.

Our final Magazine Cover: