The creation of our sight and sound magazine cover for A2 film trailer.

1. CREATING A SIGHT AND
SOUND MAGAZINE
By Kev Ishimwe

2. When I initially started
creating the magazine one
major problem I faced was
that when I used the quick
selection tool in Photoshop
to select our character, it
also selected parts of the
background and looked
very amateur and tacky
(pictured right). This meant
I had to do some research
to discover how i could
avoid this problem. This
problem was fixed with the
“refine edge” tool. The 1st
step is pictured left.

5. Now you mess
around with the
adjust edge
features. For
this one I didn’t
need to. Now
you select
decontaminate
colors and
“output to” new
layer with layer
mask.

6. Now I have selected the
character its time to
create the magazine. I
will create a sight and
sound as they are
independent like our film.

7. Paying homage using
pastiche/intertextuality
I decided to create our poster by
paying homage to this one using
pastiche/intertextuality because I
felt this poster had a lot that we
should use in our own. The blue
background connotes a dark,
moody atmosphere commonly
associated with the crime genre
and links to our plot. Also it is
relatively simple, which highlights
his importance as there is nothing
else to distract you visually.

8. The 1st thing I did was select
the background, then
selected two shades of blue
and went onto the gradient
tool. After that I selected the
horizontal gradient, which you
can see selected at the top,
then held down shift (which
makes it straight) and
experimented till I was happy.

9. Now time for the Title,
barcode,
date/price/issue and
BFI logo.

10. Then I added the featured
articles and the flash.

11. Now time for the mast
head, which I had to
use the quick
selection tool to
select it out of
another poster and
my logo.

12. Final Alternative