Magazine Development and Final

After researching magazine covers from Empire and Total Film, it was time to create our magazine cover. 

We started with the pictures that we had taken for our poster, and decided to use different ones from last time. This was the one we went with, after cutting out the background.

We decided to use a similar effect as the poster, with Luke in the foreground and Max in the background and more transparent. We gave both an outer glow, Luke's was white to show that he was the good character in the film, and Max's was black to suggest that he would be a villain. 

We originally went with the working title, HYDC Magazine, but we were advised that it might be weird that our production company was the same as our magazine.

We gave the title a black stroke and put the word magazine into HYDC.

We decided to change the name to Focus, originally because the featured film would be 'focused' on, but we also realised that focus could also apply to filming techniques such as focus pulls, so it is ambiguous. 

We also put a texture on the gradient and gave the title a cyan outer glow instead.

The next step was to add the name of the film, which we did with the same style as the masthead. We also added a tagline and a 'world exclusive' stamp.

We also noticed that some of our magazine influences had other articles on the front, so we added a small sample on the right hand side of the cover and at the bottom, as well as a banner along the top which shows another article.

This is our final magazine.