Inspirations From other Media Magazines

When designing and creating my Front Cover of my Film magazine I wanted my front cover to look as professional as possible, in order to achieve that i did some simple research of some famous front covers of film magazines. After browsing through a few i found the front cover of 'MovieMaker' and this caught my eye, simple yet very professional looking. What caught my eye immediately about this front cover was the colour scheme and Layout, as my instal intensions were a bit over the top but this did what it was supposed to do and look professional at the same time. As my initial idea was to have my model in the stance he is as seen bellow in the final version of my front cover, I wanted to integrate the layout and colour scheme of 'MovieMaker' Magazine with my photo and Logo that i created. Doing this allowed my final Front Cover Magazine to look very professional as when I was designing my front cover I constantly looked back at the 'MovieMaker' front cover to see that my front cover looked as professional and real as it did. I found 'MovieMaker's' front cover very inspirational while creating my final front cover, and believe that i wouldn't of achieved the final outcome i did without it.

Film Magazine, Front Cover Draft/Sketch

Completed Film Magazine, Front Cover

Creating Film Magazine Front Cover

 I first started by adding the original Photo that I took of my model.

 I then Removed the unnecessary background.

 I then decided to use a plain white background for my magazine as I found this to be a recurring factor in the magazines I have currently looked at.

 Next I added the masthead, and put it behind my model.

 I decided to add a sell line of my model who is a star in my film (Bloodline) I was inspired to do this in the style of a 'MovieMaker' film magazine.

 I then added a banner at the top of the magazine with the magazines slogan on it "Treat yourself to a movie" anther aspect of 'MovieMaker' Magazine I was inspired by.

After this I added the conventional barcode in the bottom left hand corner of the front cover.

 Next I added the tag-line which also complimented my main image, talking about the film.

I finally added all other necessary information along the left hand side of the magazine, where I was inspired by 'MovieMaker' Film magazine yet again. This is my finished front cover.

Original Photos Used in Front Cover Film Magazine

Here is the original image I will be using in my Front Cover of my film magazine.

Finished Masthead 'CINEMATIC'

Creating Front Cover Masthead

 First of all to design my masthead, I had a basic font and had it in a solid black colour.

 I then had the idea of having the masthead have an effect that it would be crumbling down and breaking up, so I then used a special brush to do this as see in the picture above.

 Next I added the debris that was falling off the masthead, however I found that this was too overwhelming and the black seemed to be too plain.

 So I then got this textured background off the internet, and used it as texture for my masthead.

 Now that I finished adding the texture, all I had to do was remove the debris from the composition and add more realistic ones that match the texture of the font.

 Here I am adding the broken parts in the new textured font.

 I then play about with the debris part, trying to make it look as natural as possible.

Here is the final masthead, I found that by increasing my brush size allowed for bigger gaps between the pieces of debris making it look more natural and real.

Final BLOODLINE Film Poster

My Final Version of my Film Poster, although looking at my Film Poster now after completely editing it, the two faded heads to the right of the poster seem to look different, when editing I had the image of the star wars posters in mind(although its genre is sci-fi) which is why the faded heads are in the style they are.

Scarface was a huge influence and inspiration when creating my film poster, as you can see my model is in a very similar stance to that of Al Pacino and is even holding a gun, however its as if my model is in a mirrored version to the scarface poster.

Creating BLOODLINE Poster

 I started of by adding the picture I took to an A4 Composition in photoshop.

After adding the image, I removed the background. I used a green layer below the image to see if i missed and areas to remove.

 Next I added a temporary background image that I found on the internet, just to see how a background image similar to my initial thoughts and ideas would look. My initial idea was to have a background where two tower blocks overlook my main model, and this background image seemed to fit to that description.

 Next I added the Masthead that I created previously.

 I found that the Masthead seemed to fade out and become very flat and hard to see so I decided to add an outer glow effect, I changed the colour to a light greyish colour later on.

 Next I added the other main characters to the poster. I used a fade effect to blend their bodies to the background of the poster, to make it look more natural. I also added their actor names at the bottom of the poster and added a 5 star review however I found this to feel unnatural so I later on remove it from the poster. I also added my own background to the poster, which was an original photo that I took myself.

 Next I added the Poster Credits.

 I then added a release date at the bottom of the poster, however just the month and year.

 I then added sponsors and companies that helped with the movie at the bottom of the poster.

 Making my own sponsor here.

 Which I called FlouPow.

 The Film Poster is nearly complete at this stage, all I had to do was remove the stars from the poster.

The finished and completed BLOODLINE Film Poster

BLOODLINE Finished Masthead

Creating Bloodline Masthead

 As I Created the Logo/Masthead of our movie trailer, I decided to use the idea of using blood on the font to represent the blood in the bloodline title however this was a long process and took a bit of work so first I got a normal font with the name of our movie 'Bloodline' the font was called Urban Jungle however I wanted to make the Masthead original so I will Edit this Font to make it my own and simply use this as my basic template.

 So to start, I made the entire font black removing the broken pieces inside as see before.

 Next I had to add the the blood splatter effect so i found some royalty free Pre-Keyed Blood Splatter effects online.

 I then had to add this onto the font to do this I simply had the blood splatter on top of the font I then highlighted the font and simply deleted the blood splatter that wasn't touching the font.

 After I removed the unnecessary blood splatter.

 Another Pre-Keyed Blood Splatter effect.

 I resized the blood splatter and placed it on top of the 'B'

 Another pre-keyed splatter effect.

 After adding all the blood splatter effects onto the font, I didn't want to add too many to the font as I didn't want it to become over whelming, so I found this was the perfect amount.

 I then found that the blood splatter wasn't quite visible, so then I changed the colour balance  and increased the colour levels for red much higher.

 I then wanted to change the colour of the font but I didnt want it to be too basic and have flat colours so in turn I decided to get a texture picture and select the 'BLOODLINE' font and deleted the unnecessary background.

Original Picture used for the textured background on the font.

Final and finished Masthead/Logo complete.