Jessica began creating her magazine cover by taking photos of models and editing them in Photoshop. She centered model Luke on the page and experimented with fonts for the title. Next, she added background images that ended up looking too busy, so she removed them. Finally, she cut out photos of additional models Jess and Alex to place behind Luke and refined the design by adding a gray gradient background, stars to indicate comedy, and credits along the bottom.
2. Stage 1
• I began with taking my models to have their picture taken in the sixth form block. I took
several photos of, Alexander, Jess and Luke. I then downloaded them onto my Laptop where I
used Adobe Photoshop CS3 and the quick selection tool to cut and paste into my magazine
document. I began with Luke and placed him in the centre of the magazine. I built my
magazine around Luke, playing about with different fonts for a title.
3. Stage 2 and 3
• I then decided on a black font that would suffice as the title font from a website on the
internet and inserted Luke back onto the magazine.
4. Stage 4
• My next stage involved me applying a back ground to my poster, the universe and then the
earth. I decided this looked too much for my poster and removed both features.
5. Stage 5
• For stage 5, I took individual pictures of Jess and Alex to put into my trailer behind Luke. I cut
them out using the quick selection tool on Photoshop then copied and pasted them onto my
main poster.
7. Stage 6
• I came to the conclusion that a plain white back ground looked too bright and out of place
against my characters and font. I opted for a gradient grey look. I created a new
layer, selected effects and applied a gradient overlay.
8. Stage 7
My original plan was to have the banner at the top of my poster to say ‘From the
Director of the Situation’ but I then decided to add the names of my actors at the top of
the poster. Originally they were all black and the same size, but as my poster
progressed, I decided to make ‘Luke Beckess’ stand out more by being blue and larger in
font as he is the main character.
9. Stage 8
There was no real progression in stage 8 apart from that I added ‘June 2014’ to the
poster under the title to inform potential viewers of the release date.
10. Stage 9
I felt that my poster lacked colour and excitement as well as a something to indicate that it
was a comedy. I added blue stars under the actors which I think works well overall. I google
searched the ‘cartoon stars’, cut them out using the quick selection tool in a separate
Photoshop document and then pasted them onto my main poster.
11. Stage 10
My next stage was adding the information at the bottom of the poster stating the
producer, actors directors and other important people involved with the film making.
12. Stage 11
My last stage was adding the earth in behind the actors. I felt I needed some relevance to
the film title, ‘A world of his own’ referring to Luke living like he’s the only person in the
world.