The document summarizes the process of choosing an image and designing the cover for a magazine promoting a horror film. Key details: - The chosen image features balanced lighting, a simple background, and subtle facial expression/body language to not distract from text or make viewers uneasy. - Editing in Photoshop allowed adding text/graphics and altering lighting/color. A glow effect was added to the actress's name to emphasize her significance. - Sans-serif fonts were used to link to the cyber horror genre. A well-known masthead was selected to attract viewers and signal quality. Font color and sizing balanced attention between masthead and film title.

1. MAGAZINE
COVER
PRODUCTION

2. CHOOSING THE IMAGE
When deciding the image for our magazine cover, we looked for balanced lighting, a simple background for it to
not clash with the magazine’s feature text and graphics and not distract the viewer from the model. We also looked
for the most effective facial expression and body language expressed through our model however not too
exaggerated and dramatic to add subtly yet made the viewer feel uneasy to link with the horror genre of our
trailer. Using real text medias as a guide to the production of the magazine cover, we spotted that cover stars often
wear one of, if not, their main costume in the movie that they are starring in, which is why our model is wearing
the same costume (choker, necklace, top, hair & makeup) as she does in the trailer, correlating the two media
products. The light colours of the costume allowed us to overlay text and graphics over the model’s body whilst
keeping the entire cover’s overlay professional, focusing on the organisation of the text.
However the quality of the image is poor, negatively effecting the entire product but apart from that I believe the
chosen image is effective and directly addresses towards the audience.
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3. EXAMPLE OF EDITING
Editing on Photoshop allowed us to add text and graphics as well as alter the image’s lighting & colour. Our
magazine includes a cover line which states the actress who plays our film’s protagonist, Emily Hope. To
emphasise the significance in her name and role in the movie we added the same glow effect that is featured in
captions of the trailer in addition to the movie poster’s tagline, cohesively linking all three product as a
promotional package.
To achieve this effect we selected a bolder font for the
actresses name compared to the rest of the cover line,
“horror’s leading lady stars in”, to bring more attention to
the name as well as add depth to the cover. We then
rasterized its size and duplicated it thrice. We selected the
motion blur effect and changed the dimensions of angle
to 90 degrees and the distance to 85 to give a subtle but
significant effect to the actress’s name.

4. DECIDING THE FONTS
For our fonts throughout the magazine cover, we aimed to keep them modern to link to the
cyber horror genre of our narrative and therefore only used sans-serif fonts. We chose the
EMPIRE masthead because of its iconic status as one of, if not, the more popular film &
entertainment magazine; this allows more people to be attracted by it as the viewer will trust
the quality and reliability of a well-known magazine. The use of red throughout the cover was
balanced with black font like in the feature text writing “FREE! SCREAM POSTER” to allow the
word that represents fear and panic, “SCREAM”, to stand out the most. The title of our film, ‘THE
REFUSAL’ is big, almost as big as the masthead to balance their significance on the cover. The
real media text we used for inspiration for our choice of fonts was from Scream Queens. We
looked for a similar font style on DaFont.com in their horror collection and found a similar one
with blood spilling down each letter.