Evaluation by Hollie Tuckwell

Burgess field evaluation

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Burgess field’ evaluation

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A2 Media Project Advanced Portfolio - Burgess Field

Final Magazine Cover - SE

Development of Magazine cover - SE

After thoroughly researching film magazine front covers such as 'Empire' I developed a magazine front cover for our film 'Burgess Field' using photo shop. We decided to use the colour black as the background for our magazine cover as we felt this would compliment the main image and create a suitable representation of our horror film. The main image is similar to the one used in the poster, creating a visual link in the mind of the reader that will make them more interested in the article within the magazine as they will remember the image from seeing the poster. I used the 'blurring' and 'smudging' tool around the photograph to blend the image into the background which eliminated the sharp edge and makes the cover as a whole more attractive. Further more it makes the face appear to be emerging from the background out of the darkness - this eerie effect compliments the horror genre of our film. Experimenting with the title and colours:

Inserting the title:

I chose the font of the title of off a website called 'dafont'. When I downloaded it, the text was black on a white background so I used the 'invert' tool to literally invert the colours, changing the font to white and the background to black. Using the 'fill' tool I changed the colour of the text several times (evidence above) and in the end, I chose the colour red as the title colour.

During my research I discovered that the titles of film magazines were usually beneath a tag line or header title to advertise the main feature in the magazine. Using complimentary colour to the main image, I inserted this above the main title in the font choice used throughout the remaining poster text.

Inserting the text:

Underneath the title I inserted the web address and issue date as I found during my research that this was the most common place to be found on the cover.

On the left hand side is information about the main feature of the magazine: Burgess Field. On the right hand side are other features that might attract to the viewer to purchase the magazine such as interviews.

I inserted a solid coloured circle behind the freebie advertisement as this would attract the viewer's eyes, enticing them to buy the magazine.

I found it was common to use a '+' sign to insert information about the contense of the magazine that did not necessarily connect with the feature of the magazine but would still attract the reader, so I did this.

Finally I inserted a barcode and price to make the magazine cover appear authentic.

Magazine front cover conventions blogs

http://hone93.blogspot.com/2009/11/conventions-of-magazine-front-cover.html

http://soniaasresit.blogspot.com/2009/10/codes-and-conventions-of-magazine-front.html

First draft

Here we have uploaded our first draft of our teaser trailer, it is no where near a finished product it is still in need of sharp editing and sound correctly placed however we wanted to upload it to reflect our progress. We hope to upload another draft soon to show how much we have progressed.