This presentation shows specific changes I made to my magazine cover, explaining why I did them, and how it aids my final magazine.

1. MAIN IMAGE
I wanted to add a grunge effect on the main image just like I did
in the poster to make Jason stand out and look more appealing
to the target audience since he is the main character featured in
our film therefore aiding our final magazine as the main doesn't
look dull.
This was done by duplicating the images, then converting them
to a smart object. Afterwards, I changed the setting of the layer
to vivid light giving the result in the screenshot (left). Then I
went onto filter>blur>surface blur, and lastly, changed the
setting to overlay giving the final result (underneath).

2. SKYLINE
I decided to make a few changes to the
skyline in particular, colour schemes to
make our final magazine colour
schemes more consistent otherwise
they wouldn't match.
I matched the 'leak' with the film title in
red, and the made the film title 'My
friend Dahmer' in white to stand out
the most in the skyline because it's
what Empire magazines like to do when
featuring other films. It is their way of
promoting a film effectively as possible
to their audience so it can catch their
eye.

3. COVER LINES
Cover lines needed improvement the
most as we were featuring very old
movies in our magazine that were
released over 5 years ago such as
Inception and Shutter Island. To amend
this, I had to change them to recent
2017/2018 thriller films and thought it
would be good for our final magazine
because the audience we are targeting
are a younger audience and will be
discouraged by old movies they probably
aren't interested in seeing, whereas new
movies will entice them a bit more
impacting the final piece.

4. I changed the wording of the banner from 'Revealed
scenes from the Lucifer Effect' to 'Revealed – behind
the scenes with director Alex Evdokimov. My intention
of doing this was to get my audience to get closer by
getting to know more about the upcoming directors.
This also aids the outcome of my magazine because it
will encourage the audience to go and watch the film
because they can see scenes which may reveal parts of
the plot to the audience

5. One more change I made to my
magazine was the colour of the
urban background. I made it much
more brighter by working with hue
and saturation so it wouldn't
interfere with the spotlight of the
main image because at first both
colour schemes were similar as I
placed a grey background on top
of the original background making
the main image look useless. But
now I would say it looks much
better in my final magazine
because there is a clear difference
in colour between the main image
and the background.
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