Magazine Cover Development

When creating my magazine cover, I had to keep in mind the house style of the promotional products. I understood that there were certain conventions and aspects of promotional products that I had to implement in my magazine cover. The colour scheme within my media products are; red, black and white as these colours are all conventional of a horror film. The masthead on my magazine is white and I added this using the ‘T’ tool. The main image is situated in the centre of the page and is the biggest aspect of the magazine cover to ensure that it catches the audience’s attention.  I also decided to put Melinda as the main image to give the audience a better understanding of the genre of the film that is being promoted on the cover of the magazine. In addition to this, I made Melinda's eyes red using the shape tools within photoshop. I also added the woods in the background by creating a layer behind Melinda and adding in an image and changed the opacity of this layer to ensure that the main image was still the main focus of the magazine cover. 

I changed some of the colours that were part of the main image. I added a new layer and then went to colour gradient. Using this tool allowed me to add 3 colours into my image (red, blue and green) which added an effect to the image. I added mostly blue and red to my image and a little bit of green to ensure the image wasn't too bright. To do this I chose the colour>Channel>Red>Input (Made it bigger)>Output (Made it smaller). I had to do this for blue, red and green.  All of the conventions that are around the main image, for example cover lines and headlines, were added to the magazine cover using the text 'T' tool. The shapes were added using the 'Shape' tool. 

Original Image

This is the original image that is used on the front of the magazine cover. 

First Draft & Final Magazine Cover

Above, you can see the first draft and the final draft of the magazine cover. The feedback that I was given on the first draft that enabled me to make changed to create the final draft was as follows:

• Move the barcode to the bottom right corner
• Consider changing some of the font styles in white
• The masthead on the magazine font seems to be blurry around the edges
• The ‘Melinda’ font is blurry around the edges
• Issue number is missing 

I made the above changes to the magazine cover and the changes can be seen on the final draft.

Target audience feedback