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After receiving some constructive feedback from teachers and fellow pupils about my first movie magazine cover, I decided to design a second version . I thought that this would show variety in the style of my work. However, I did decide to keep the layout of the text and the photograph the same because I felt they worked well together.
I first began to design my new magazine cover by creating a new title. I decided to use the same name as my frist version, but changing the colour scheme and house style. I also wanted to relate the style of the title to the chosen name of the magazine and I eventually came up with the idea of a target in the space of the “O” letter.
To do this I copied an illustration of a target from Google images to a Photoshop file and then cut out the white rings of the target leaving only rings of red. I then filled these ring shapes with the same colour as my title to be in keeping with the new house style. I then moved the target to fit the inside the letter “O” by using the free transform tool. I then added a drop shadow in a light grey colour to create more impact on the title.
I then went on to add other text to promote the features of the magazine, for this I decided to maintain the orange/red colour that I had used for title, though unfortunately the colour of the text was quite hard to read. So to improve this I added dark grey rectangles underneath the text to make the text more distinguishable. I also played around with the angles of the text and rectangles that promoted the features of the magazine and found that the cover looked mor effective when the text was angled to create a circular shape; we can see this in slide three.
However, by doing this, it disrupted the photograph in the background and crowded the bottom half of the magazine, so I could not add any more text about features in that area. Instead I decided to remove over half of the text and rectangles and leave remaining two statements that gives the audience the basic idea of the feature, leaving a lot more space for subtitles I would be adding later on.Though I still felt that the cover still looked very basic so I decided to add an illustration of a film reel to build up the layers on the cover. I thought a film reel would be appropriate for a movie magazine because it could help the audience to understand the content of the magazine from a glance.
I first filled the image of the film reel in the same colour as the feature and title text, in order to co-ordinate with the developing house style of the magazine. I then positioned it vertically to the left hand side, which worked well with the left justified features text.However once I had moved onto creating subtitle text for the main feature of the magazine, an interview with Sabrina Ellsworth, the film reel image was taking up too much room and made the layout too crowed,aswell as being the same colour as the text. So to improve the layout I changed the colour of the illustration and then moved it using the free transform tool.
I first positioned it so that it crossed the top of the magazine cover,but when I layered the main title over it, it didn’t look as good as I hoped. I think this was because the photograph featured on the cover has some elements of symmetry in it and would benefit from a more symmetrical layout of text. So after experimenting with the angles of the illustration, the idea came to me, that it would look better if there were two images of the film reel crossing over each other,which also compliments the name of the magazine.
For the subtitle at the bottom of the page, I made the text much larger in order to gain more attention from viewers. I decided to maintain using the same red colour for this text, so that the whole magazine would be linked with a grey/red colour scheme. For finishing touches I added smaller text to explain some of the less important features, like Oscar Nominees etc. aswell as a date and tagline.I also added a drop shadow to all of the text on the magazine to help make the bright colour of the lettering stand out.
