3. Chosen picture
I decided to use this photo as the picture for my magazine front cover due to the
composition. Amy is clearly in the middle of the screen with equal space around her
making the piece look more aesthetically pleasing. Moreover, her facial expression is good
when linking with the prop of the mobile phone as this is a key scene in my teaser trailer
and also the phone connotes the importance of technology in the film. Although the
picture is portrait, therefore unconventional for a magazine front cover, I will edit the
picture to make it landscape so it conforms to the conventions and looks more
professional.
4. Brightness and contrast
I first edited the lighting with the picture by
increasing the brightness but making the contrast
more apparent to create slight shadowing on Amy’s
face. This is because low key lighting is conventional
in the Thriller genre, yet the image still needs to be
bright enough to be enticing for a young female
audience to pick up the
magazine, thus it couldn’t
be too dark.
5. Colour balance
I changed the colour balance to make the
picture have a blue hue to maintain
consistency in my piece, as the colour is
present in both other tasks, and also blue is
a regular colour featured in technology,
thus alluding to the main theme in my film
again.
6. Final result
Overall I believe the photo captures the vulnerability of the
character in the scene I wanted to portray as well as making
the genres appear easy to read and present in the piece.
