In the beginning process when I first started to make my film magazine I decided that I wanted either a long shot or a mid shot of two males in a suit. Here are some of the pictures I took experimenting with different clothing, poses and shots. I knew the quality of the images wasn’t the best I could do but I still went ahead to the next step which is picking the image I wanted to use.

I went trough the whole process of editing the picture I wanted to use and even made a mock up but I wasn’t happy with the image and the overall appearance. I felt like it didn’t look professional and I knew I could do much better so I went back to the drawing board I thought of a new concept.

After looking at different classic films such as the godfather I came up with this mood board

and decided on the black and white theme reflected trough lighting and colour. The black and white theme is a very classic theme used

for heist genre films because of its large meaning showing both darkness and light. I

collected all of these images to help me think of the type of shot I wanted and lighting.

Colour scheme

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Next I had to think about the type of front I wanted to use for my magazine I wanted something different and modern to reflect my magazine. After looking at other film magazine I decided to go for front number two because of its unique style and 70’s look. I had to decide between two names I thought of during the planning stages which was ‘independent’ and ‘hot sights’. I decided to go with hot sights because I the name is more attractive and is more clear that the magazine is a film magazine, The name independent can be any type of magazine genre and is not clear to the audience that the magazine is a film magazine. I wanted something which will pop and encourage someone to pick up the magazine and buy it.

Century Gothic

Harlow Solid Italic

Baskerville Old Face

Arial Black

Copperplate Gothic Bold

Now that I knew the type of image I wanted I went ahead and did a photo shoot. I wanted the model to cross his arms (although its not visible you can still tell his arms are crossed), wear a shirt with his top button undone to have a more casual feel and make direct eye contact with the camera to capture the audiences attention. These were my favourite images from the shoot and I decided to go with the second one because I like the way the models head is slightly down and his eyes are looking up to the camera making him look dominate.

I opened up Adobe Photoshop element 12 and went to file, open and then selected the photo I wanted to open

I selected the crop tool on the toolbar and selected the area I wanted to crop, by highlighting the area I wanted to keep and clicking on the green tick when I was finished.

I selected the effects box and selected the black and white effect and I was done. I felt like the picture didn’t need any editing because I was happy with the quality of the picture.

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Banner of names of films featured in the magazine used to attract people – In red to highlight the importance and stand out against the rest of the text surround it.

Issue number, price and magazine website under the title so it can be easier found

Sell lines used to attract the audience and give them an insight of what is featured in the magazine

Name of the film ‘candy’ featured on the magazine in the largest front to stand out