Image Evaluation- Magazine

1. Image
Evaluation
Magazine Front Cover

2. Selected Potential Images
Each of these images possess potential in featuring as the main image of my magazine front cover. Each
possesses a high quality focus, making for a visually appealing level of quality throughout the piece, conveying a
sense of professionalism.
Regarding mise en scene, the use of blood throughout each is effective in conveying the horror genre of my
piece, conveying the conventional themes of threat and danger. In which this is enhanced through the
protagonists fearful and panicked expression throughout each image; effective in also conveying their vulnerable
role in the face of the film’s antagonist.
The lighting of the first 3 images is bright conveying the features of the character coherently, although should be
saturated of warmth to create a more unnerving atmosphere during editing.
The last 2 images were taken outside, provides a suitably darkened aesthetic, however lacking the highlighted
features that the others possess.

3. Chosen Image
Quality
 The focus of the image is of a
high quality, making for a
professionally taken image,
effective in contributing to the
over aesthetic coherency of
the image.

4. Chosen Image
Mise en scene
 The character’s direct address of the audience meets
with the conventional representation of characters
within a film magazine.
 The character's wide-eyed expression conveys a
sense of vulnerability, as they appear helpless in the
face of danger.
 The hand to their face is effective in emphasising their
concerned demeanour; foreshadowing their inability to
evade the film’s antagonist.
 The use of blood is effective in conveying the harm
that the antagonist shall inflict upon the protagonist,
whilst also forming a rather eerie aesthetic (through
the sinister connotations of blood); conventional of the
horror genre.
 The messages of ‘It’s you’ and ‘They’re near’ reflect
those featured within the teaser trailer for the film;
forming a coherent link between the two.
 The Medium Close-up allows for the protagonist’s
facial expression to be coherently viewed.

5. Chosen Image
Mise en scene- Required editing
 Application of a filter, draining the warmth
within the image to create a cold and
unwelcoming atmosphere.
 Reversing the image so that the written
messages can be read from left to right.
 Replacing the background with a
black/blue gradient.
 Possibly removing the messages from
her face and re-creating them digitally, in
order for them to be more coherently
read.
 Adjusting her eyebrows so that she
appear more concerned.

6. Chosen Image
Message
 The blood messages convey the
harm/threat that shall dominate the
character’s life throughout the film.
 The character’s frightened expression
communicates her vulnerability in the ace
of the antagonist, prompting the audience
to feel sympathetic and concerned for
her.
 The application of blood foreshadows her
dark fate at the end of the film, and her
wide-eyed gaze conveys her wavering
stability as her slightly turned face
conveys her difficulty in facing the threat
of the film.

7. Chosen Image
Framing
 The character is centrally captured
within the frame, conforming to my
desired central page orientation.
 The character’s head is fully
captured within the shot with no
important areas uncaptured.
 Her shoulders are not fully captured
within the shot, however this will
effectively fill the empty space that
was present within the more mid shot
nature of my initial sketch designs.

8. Conclusion
 This image is of a high quality, presenting a professionally taken piece,
which possesses an aesthetically satisfying central orientation. The direct
address of the character conforms to magazine conventions and creates
an effect bond between the reader and featured character.
 The use of blood and a fearful expression clearly conveys the character
vulnerable role within the film, but also their dominant role in progressing
the narrative; due to their dominance within the frame.
 The inclusion of bloodied messages conveys the form that the antagonist
shall take.
 Thus, making for an image that conforms to the ideas expressed within
my initial design, with the expectation of the slight change in shot, using a
medium close-up instead of a mid shot in order to fill any unnecessary
gaps that would otherwise be somewhat plain and not fully utilised.