Magazine front cover

Creating my magazine front cover

I am creating my magazine front cover in the programme Adobe Photoshop. The first thing that I thought about when creating my film magazine front cover was the font that I was going to use for the name of the magazine and the name of the magazine. I looked for different magazine fonts on dafont.com. I looked at different film magazines and looked at the size of fonts and fonts that were used on known film magazines.

The name that I have chosen for my magazine is North East film. I chose my font off dafont.com and the name of the font is imagine font. I started creating my magazine front cover and putting the text onto it. I choose that I wanted the theme of colours to be red and black. This is the start of my magazine;

I choose the name North East because that is where my film is going to be and because i's filming around relatable places to the north east I thought that it was a good name to call my film magazine front cover. Also I think its original because there are not any film magazines that are targeted at a audience in the north east of England. I am going to look at other films that have been made in the north east to advertise on my the front cover of my magazine that I am making.

The next stage of adding to my magazine front cover was that I looked at different institutions that a magazine needs on the front of the cover. I looked at things like webpage address, the issue numbers of a magazine and the price. I then went on to add these three things to the front of my magazine front cover.

For all of my magazine front cover I used the same font to keep consistancy through out my work.I also tried to keep the colour scheme of my work the same to make my magazine relatable to the audience. I added information to my magazine front cover giving insite about what my film is going to be about and different stories after looking at other film magazines to try and make my magazine the same and look like a film magazine. I added other films and inside information on to my magazine front cover to fill up space that I hadn't used and looked quite blank.

This is my final magazine front cover

Preperation for Magazine and Poster Photographs

To complete my auxiliary tasks I need to complete a magazine front cover and a film poster and to do this I need to take photographs to put on the front of both of the tasks. I have looked at different kinds of magazines for front covers and posters. I have decided that for my magazine front cover I want a close up shots in loads of different media to get a shot of all 6 main characters. 

I had to e-mail Colin to try and book time in the studio so that I can take my photos. These are the e-mails that we sent to book a time that I can take photography.

Facebook Page

As part of my research I created a facebook page which I made the name 'HRP productions' I made the page to get my friends invovled in whats happening with my film trailer and so that my friends that are invovled in my film trailer could keep up to date with what is happening and so they know what they need to do and times and dates. I put my logo as my main image on my page and got my friends invovled with my page straight away.

I had to start off by putting a description of what my company page was about; "This is a page for my Media studies A2 film trailer research. Its for people who are taking part in my film trailer to keep you upto date."

You can find my page on www.facebook.com/hrpmediastudiesa2

I started off inviting friends who are taking part in my media studies film trailer and friends that are supportive over my media film trailer. All of the people that I have invited to my page are in my target audeince so they can have input into my film and help me with ideas.

 

This is my facebook page that i have made for my audience and for people that are invovled in my media film trailer that I am making.

 

This is my friend sophie who is one of the main characters who is taking part in my film trailer. Planning on getting intouch about taking photos for my two auxiliary tasks. 

Contacting Actors

To invlove my friends in my film trailer I text my friends the people who I wanted to be in my film. I text them asking if I they would take part in my film trailer and if its ok if I take photographs of them for my two auxiliary tasks that go along side my film trailer. The magazine cover and poster for these I am booking a studio at Sunderland University to take my images in a studio, I am going to take the people that are in my film trailer and see when everyone can make it and when it is possible for me to book a time to go into the unversity and book out a studio. These are the actors that are taking part in my film;

David Smallman

Jayne Dowell 

Texts and Confirmations

The reason that I chose these two actors to be in my film is because I want my film to revolve around a love story between a male and a female. Following the main characteristics from what we think of a romance film. Following heartbreak, fights and relationships. Between these two actors in my trailer it portrays the romance genre in my work.

comparisions

I looked at different posters and magazine covers to look at how the pictures that create a link between the two different media platforms. The reason that I looked at these two areas is because these are the two auxiliary tasks that I am doing to go along side my film trailer to advertise my film. The two different media platforms are magazine and a film poster. I looked at a magazine and poster from the film Willy Wonka, the magazine was from the magazine company 'total film' and i got the poster from the internet. 

Willy Wonka Magazine Cover

Willy Wonka Poster

The poster image focus' on the main character 'Willy Wonka' a relatable character for most people also because the film had been out before people will be able to make connections with the different characters and the main character and know a bit about the storyline is about. Also the main character 'Johnny Deep' so this makes people want to go and see the film. The difference with the magazine compared to the poster is that the magazine front page is trying to get a audience to read further to find out about something where as a poster is trying to give us a insight into the film and showing us the characters that are involved.  

I like the way that on the poster its shows both of the main characters 'Willy Wonka' and 'Charlie' it also shows the other kids that are involved in the film also shows the different natures of the children on the film poster. The poster tells a story to the audience what the film is about I also like that along with the main image creating the picture, the title of the film stands out to the audience 'Charlie and the chocolate factory' also the name of the film gives away a bit about what happens in the film. 

By looking at different posters and magazines it helped me with planning the way that I wanted to make my my magazine and my poster images different to each other. It made me think about ideas for my own magazine and what kind of images that I want to take to put onto my front cover. 

Other media platforms

I looked at magazines from other media platforms to see what kind of images they use on the front of their magazines. I collected a magazine from blockbuster and it is a game magazine. I choose to look at this magazine for other media platforms because I found that film magazines and the gaming magazine use the same type of institutions. I looked at the magazine front cover and the poster that was also shown on the back of the gaming magazine, this helped me when thinking about taking images for my film magazine. I think it has helped me looking at different media platforms. 

Magazine front cover

Poster 

INSTITUTIONAL RESEARCH/COMPANY LOGO IDEA/MAKING COMPANY LOGO/FIANL COMPANY LOGO

Before I created my own logo I looked at different film logo's and film institution to get ideas for what I can do for my own film logo. I saw that out of all the logos that they all have a background and use right colours to stand out to the audience.

When creating my logo my the first thing that I had to think about was the name that I wanted to call it then look on the internet to see if anyone else had, had that name for a proper production. The name that I chose was HRP productions. After I chose the name I then opened a photoshop document to create the logo in.  I had to change the preset to 'film and video' and change the size to 'HDTV 1080p'.

After I had done this I then had to chose a font that I wanted to use for my writing on my logo to make it look more unique. To do this I went on to the programme www.dafont.com and looked at different fonts. This is the font that I choose to use; 

I choose to use this because it looks interesting compared to normal fonts and when I did my questionnaire most people said that the institution that they liked the best was Disney so I looked at the disney logo and looked at the kind of font that was used on the disney logo and it was different to most fonts and stood out so I decided that I wanted to use a font that stands out and is different to most fonts that you see. I also choose to use this font because my genre of my film is romantic comedy and because of the hearts in the writing I thought that it would fit. After I chose what font that I wanted to use I had to download the font. I wanted my logo to be in a circle keeping it all inside so the first thing I did was choose a shape and then wrote the name of my productions inside of the circle shape. 

This is the start of my logo. 

I choose an image off the internet that I wanted to use on my logo, to use it I made some changes to the image so that I could use it on my logo. To make the changes I made them on powerpoint, first of all I changed the picture so that it was facing the right instead of the left. I then cropped some of the background out and recoloured my picture to make it brighter. 

The starting Image that I got off the Internet

My final picture that I want to use for my logo

With my final logo picture and the writing that I choose I then put my logo together and created my final logo that I wanted to use on my trailer. I created my logo in photoshop by using different layers. 

This is my final logo. 

TIME MANAGEMENT TWO

For my time management I have made sure that I have been doing work at home as well as work in my college hours to try and complete my different films and my storyboards for my own film. Also I have thought about my different voice overs that I would like to use in my film trailer and when I want them to be to spread them out among the film trailer.

STORYBOARDS

These are the storyboards that I have made up and what I want my story to look like when I start to create my film trailer.

Video Editing Practice 3 - MOBILE PHONE SHORT FILM

A and B are waiting around for something to happen

A keeps checking their phone 

Eventually a text message comes through 

A reads the text and looks shocked and walked away 

B left looking confused 

To create my own film. I worked with 5 friends to create the film. Three of us had to take part in being filmed and acting out the script shown above, there were only meant to be two actors but our group was bigger. In our filmed we tried to use as many shots as we could e.g close-ups, wide shots and zoom in shot. The other two of us one had to film ad the other one had to be the director. 

Even though we all worked together to film the the different clips that we did to make our film, when we put all of the clips together that we took I had to edit it on Adobe premiere pro and when we put the clips in the programme we were editing it on we all made the film a different way using different music that we thought was effective and the shots that we choose to use and adding different effects to our short film. 

After I finished my editing on my short film I then had to make my short film into a file so that I could update it and put it up on www.youtube.co.uk.  

Video Editing Practice 2 - THE SIMPSON TRAILER

To create my own Simpsons trailer I got given 10 clips that I had to choose certain pieces of the clips to the try and re-create a Simpsons trailer trying to make it into the genre of romantic comedy. I put the trailer together using Adobe Premiere Pro this then will help me when going to edit my own film trailer on Adobe Premiere Pro. To put my simpsons trailer together I used alot of fades into eachother and added other music over the top of what was happening in the original clips to make the trailer flow more together. Also when creating my film trailer I added different text clips into the trailer so that it would split it up more and so that it had the institutions of being a film trailer. This is my simpsons trailer;