2. Photoshop was the software used to create my production of my film
magazine, as it has a wide variety of tools and elements that can be used to
create creative piece of work, with a lot of professional arts institutions
making use of it. It is quite complex to use, but once played around with
becomes more easier to use.
3. This was a studio shot taken of the killer
holding one of his weapons which is a chain.
This is the original picture, however I used
the quick selection tool to crop out the main
image from the frame, so that I can work
with the main image in more depth.
4. To start of the film magazine I had to create a
new file, which had to consists of A4 as that’s
the size of magazines. Afterwards, I made
background colour black, however it looked to
plain so I went on the layer style where you can
do various things to make things look better on
Photoshop and not too basic. So having this in
mind as you can see from the picture I used a lot
of effects but one that worked well was the drop
shadow as it made the diamond in the middle
have a real presence and made the background
colour more interesting that it just being plain.
5. After I had played with the background
colour and the different things I had
done to it, I was happy enough to put
my model on the front cover and the
model fitted in well with the
background colour.
6. “Film Zilla” as you can see from the screenshots that it was my
masthead title that I created. Again I used the layer style to
improve the quality of my masthead, what helped was the ‘Stroke’
as this element helped me bring out the black colour out of the red
masthead. Also with the masthead I positioned my model on top of
it, covering half of the letter Z to show the authority of the
character. To put the model on top of the masthead I needed to
change the order of the layers putting the masthead before the
model.
7. I then started to incorporating sell lines with different types of fonts,
also with the colour scheme being red, black and white, with a touch
of grey due to the background. This was where I could really see the
layout of the magazine and gave me an overview on what may need
to be improved. As you can see in the screenshot I added a button
which is quite common in magazine, as it grabs the audiences’
attention giving them some sort of exclusive insight on a must read
article, or sometimes often giveaways or prizes
8. As you can see from this screenshot, the progress of
the magazine had developed, as I then thought it
was the right thing to incorporate sub images of
other films from the horror genre which I did; which
was used so that the audience can have a variety of
films to look at from the magazine.
9. Staying with the sub images aspects, I incorporated the red
arrow to connote to the audience that there is a lot more
stuff which is included in the magazine; this arrow used on
top of the sub images, would be useful in aiding help to
promote the magazine.
10. The film title is displayed on the left hand side
coming into the middle. With the name of the film
being the main headline. I then again went on layer
style, so that I could give the film title “ENIGMA” a
unique style to it so that it would stand out from
the other fonts in the magazine. With this particular
film title I experimented with the “Bevel&Emboss”
sections to see whether it would add flavour to the
film title and it did, as the way the red colour is
portrayed in the film mag is different and unique.
