The document describes experiments conducted to design a magazine cover that fits the style of Little White Lies magazine. Several approaches were tried, including blacking out a model's eyes, applying filters to create different effects, and editing the image to look like an illustration. None of these were fully successful. A later experiment involved giving the image a blue tint and partially blacking out one eye to represent two characters from the featured film. While closer, this design still needed more elements reflecting the magazine's brand identity. Further experiments are planned to develop a cover that successfully captures Little White Lies' subtle, stylized aesthetic.

1. FILM
MAGAZINE
EXPERIMENTS
CHAPELLE COOPER

2. To start with we experimented with
blacking out the models eyes to
give the effect of a mask as this
would fit with our brand identity,
however by just doing this it didn’t
show much creativity and didn’t fit
the Little White Lies style because
of this we decided tot ake this idea
further and experiment with
different effects on it.

3. For this one we used the same image with
the black out eyes, however cleaned them
up a bit so they looked more realistic, we
then went onto the filter gallery on
photoshop and tried out different effects in
which we thought would work well, we
added this filter to our image and changed
the exposure to create more of a contrast
between the light and dark in the image. In
addition to this for this experiment we tried a
variety of ways in which to place our title this
included within the eye of the model,
changing the transparency of the title so it
would be transparent amongst the
background and show subtlety as this is
commonly used in a Little Whit Lies cover.
However we struggled to find one we liked,
in addition we felt the image itself didn’t fi
the little white lies style as it looked to
pixelated and over edited, because of this
we decided to try some different
experiments.

4. For this one we decided to take a
different approach to the style of our
editing, we looked up online how to
recreate an image to look like an
illustration. We started this by adding a
filter over the image to get rid of the
majority of colour within the image, we
then layered two of these filters over the
top of each other to create an almost
drawn like effect. The next stage was to
start effectively colouring in the image
with colours we thought were
necessary. Throughout this process we
weren’t too keen o how it was turning
out and felt like it looked too immature
and didn’t fit with our brand identity.

5. For this experiment we edited the picture with
a filter on photsohop whilst also changing the
tint and also the exposure to the image to
give it more of a blue tint to fit with our brand
identity and the use of blue used in both the
trailer and film poster. For this idea we
decided to only black out one of the eyes to
give it the effect of half a mask and half of a
face, this is to show the idea of both
characters used in the film, we also got rid of
some of the shadow that was included on the
white side this was done to emphasise the
mask look. We also included the title within
the hair, we decided to do this as it fits the
way Little White Lies often incorporates their
titles in very subtly, so we decided to take this
convention and use it within our own cover.
However although we are getting closer to
finalising our idea as this is our favourite
experiment so far we still find that we need to
add in some more features to this poster to
keep with brand identity.

6. We still haven’t finished our magazine poster and are still trying out different
experiments in which we could use for it, we have come closer to figuring out
what we want to use, however we need to incorporate our brand identity in
more.