The document discusses the process of designing a magazine cover in Adobe InDesign. It describes adjusting fonts, shadows, colors, lighting effects, and other elements to improve the visual design and layout. Key elements included adding a skyline image to represent the magazine's target audience and quality, as well as changing colors and positioning of elements to create a cohesive and professional design.

2.  Due to not being able to find a image that could be
exported from my trailer that represent my project I
decided to use one of the smaller images take from my
poster, but re-create it to make it fit into the design of
magazine and look different from the poster image

3.  I had trouble deciding what font to use as I wanted the masthead to look
as contemporary and as professional as possible. Therefore firstly I
decided to use a simple font firstly, then after I incorporated the other
aspects of the magazine front cover, then I would find a font that best
suited the design and layout.
 By using the effects tool on InDesign I was able to change the inner and
outer shadow of the font. The shadow colour is black, so by changing the
opacity I was able to blend it into the canvas colour.

4.  By using vocabulary like “world exclusive” I give the audience the impression that
the information provided in Critic magazine will not be available in any other
magazine, therefore acting as a persuasive technique. It connotes fresh and
limited content.
 “The girls are back” highlights and works with the representation that I was trying
to portray in my trailer. This was to move away from the traditional action film
conventions of being dominated by masculine conventions such as guns, cars
and bombs. However, Bloodline will be a female dominated film with the use of
masculine conventions like weapons etc. The key idea/purpose is to show that
when forced to do so, females can also take on the strong, brave and controlling
role. They do not need to be forced to do only the traditional submissive roles
expected of women.

5.  This was a image taken from some footage that I was unable to
incorporate into my trailer, due to technical difficulties. However, I was
able to export the footage out of adobe premier and place in Photoshop
for editing. I though that this was a good image in terms of the shot
type, angle, and a goo way of representing the characters as mysterious.
After carefully cutting out the image from the background, I
experimented with the lighting effects to add a spotlight to the images.
The effect of this as it highlights that these two characters are of
importance and status.

6.  After adjusting the lighting, by also changing the hue and
saturation levels I was able to increase the visibility of the
spotlight, making the impact stronger. I was also able to
brighten up the faces of the characters, something that was not
able to be accomplished in the filming stages due to the
lighting in the location which was unable to altered to suit my
preference.

7.  Like with many other of the images involved in all my ancillary
projects, by adjusting the selective colour ensures that each project is
linked. The colour red is very important in all aspects of my project as
it is apart of the title, representations and themes. Being a very bold
and eye-catching colour, it is able to sustain the audiences appeal by
connoting very different things such as
family, danger, violence, power, strength, passion, love and war.

8.  By adjusting the hue and saturation on this
image, the colour was changed from a bold red to a
more warmer colour. The warmness connoted
through the image and the body language/closeness
of the characters shows their bond, friendship and
love.

9.  Next I found that altering the brightness/contrast it
gave the image a sharper and smoother look. This
just made it look much more professional than the
raw image which I started off within the beginning.

10.  Like other images, I experimented with the lighting effects to add a
spotlight to the images. The effect of this as it highlights that these two
characters are of importance and status. This was important for this
shot, as audiences may think that the character on the left is more
important because she is the one on the phone (possibly representing a
business woman) and her body is facing the camera directly, whereas the
character on the right may be seen as just a “sidekick.” By increasing the
brightness on both characters, i tried to produce a sense of equality.

11.  After incorporating the image into the magazine, I was
not impressed how the everything fitted together. I felt
that this was partly due to the colour of image which
did not work well with the other colours and aspects
of the magazine, such as how the images in my poster
worked well together with the design and layout.

12.  To try and improve the visual quality of the front
cover, I changed the font colour of the anchor text to
black and adding and a outer glow of white to make it
clearer and readable.
 I also added a red box around the “world exclusive”, to
highlight it but still continue with the colour scheme.

13.  1st Draft

14.  What works well:
◦ Works well together
◦ Very good
 What could be improved:
◦ The barcode is too close to the text
◦ Make the issues number
◦ Has the potential to be seen as a poster
◦ Add magazine feature of a skyline, that has a
special attraction to the target audience

15.  After creating more space between the barcode and the main
cover line, I held down the shift key I was able to group the
different layers which allowed me ensure that the positioning
of the components was correct and in line with each other
 By adding a sky line, I was able to assert the dominance that Critic has
over other magazines, and highlights the speciality of this issue.

16.  Final Magazine Front Cover