Research & Planning - Magazine Cover Update

This was the rough draft presented to the class for audience feedback. They informed me that I needed to add a photo of a model, which is when the photoshoot with Gemma took place 3 days after.

I really like the way the protagonist is posing while clutching onto the axe, it shoes that she is brave, yet afraid while gripping tightly on to the axe. The medium shot shows off her bruise, bloody shirt, bloody bandage, axe and scar clearly for the audience to see. I have also included a sub-heading informing the audience what type of issue this one is, I have also included a sell line to persuade readers to buy the magazine. 

Then I include a 'Plus' to inform audiences what also in the magazine, which the leads us to the coverlines. I have also included the magazine's website under the masthead.

I have copied the film titles effects from the film poster, just to keep up with the continuity. I changed the sub-heading again, because I wanted grab the readers attention mentioning that my magazine was the best one in 2014.

Using a photo I took of the memorial wall, I placed it behind it Gemma's body so that audiences can still see the posters but still see the model. I even faded the memorial wall a little as it was taking away the focus off Gemma. I have inserted some Coverlines of the latest films coming up this year. To make the stand out I used the shape tool to bring them out.

I shrunk the films title because at the time I thought it was taking over Gemma's pose.

I darkened the photo of Gemma as it was too bright with high key lighting, whereas I wanted low key lighting to give off a ghoulish feeling.

I have made Gemma's skin paler, as if she wasn't well in the circumstances she was living in within the apocalypse, my media teacher helpfully informed me too enlarge the films title to make it stand out, change the previous sub-heading to make it the same length as the masthead and just to shrink the barcode a little to keep it in line with the coverlines in the bottom left.

This is what the cover looks like now, I just had to cover up some un-even skin tones using the cloning stamp and using the blur tool to smooth down her skin, bruise and hair.