After re-creating a trailer and a film poster, i thought i may as well also reconstruct a film magazine front cover, in order to give myself some practice and a sense of the magazine conventions. The magazine poster i chose to re-create is the one shown below; The Hunger Games edition of Total Film magazine.
1) I first added a photograph of a flame into photoshop on a black background. This is to mimic the 'catching fire' theme of the magazine and the featured movie.
2) Next i added a bold white font that reads 'Film' and used the polygonal lasso tool to select and delete the shape of the world 'total' from the top of the letter F. I like this decision i made because i think the way you can see the background through the letters is very effective and reflects the original cover very well.
3) Next i added white text saying 'The hunger games' across the magazine, and used the 'drop shadow' layer style to add a shadow around it to mimic the original design. I also added the yellow rectangle beneath it to begin filling in my magazine cover.
4) I added 'Massive interactive issue' on top of the yellow box in the same style font as what was on the original magazine. i also added a rotated red rectangle with the word 'amazing!' inside of it on the left of the rectangle.
5) I added the lines 'inside: the most influential film made in years' and 'use your phone to make the pages come alive! see page 6 to find out how' below both the subheadings of the front cover, in a much smaller font. I have also added 'Death! Destruction! Dystopia!' to the right hand side of the cover in bold yellow writing.
6) Here i have added a yellow circle using the shape tool, and by using the appropriate fonts and colours, i have created the '10 biggest block busters' sticker that is shown on the front of the original magazine cover.
7) By adding more titles in the correct fonts and colour schemes, along with white squares for the image borders, i feel like my magazine is slowly coming along very nicely. I have also added the + sign at the bottom with the 'extra' stories and the bar code that are included on the bottom of the Total Film magazine. I obviously did not have an original photograph of a real-life spider man, therefore i have added an image from Google Images to the yellow rectangle at the bottom.
8) I have added existing original images of me and my friends at the top of the magazine that matched the type of photographs on the original cover. For example, the image on the right originally had two girls in dresses smiling at the camera, therefore i used me and my best friend smiling on our prom night. I have also added the date and issue number etc under the Masthead of the magazine.
9) Next i have added a photograph of myself to the center of the page to act as the main image. I wore black clothes with my hair in a side braid in order to reflect Jennifer Lawrence/Katniss Everdeen's appearance on the front of the original magazine. This completes my front cover of my third reconstruction task (The full version will be uploaded in my next blogpost).
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This is the final outcome of my movie magazine that i reconstructed from the original empire magazine (both are shown below.) When put side by side i think i have done a decent job in getting my product to look similar to the original, as all the layout is more or less in the same place and i have stuck to the main conventions of the total film magazine. The main image could have been a better quality as it was just taken with a webcam, however i know that i will be using the studio when i make my real products, so the photos will hopefully be a lot better in quality by the time it comes to making my final designs.
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