After we decided what photograph to use we uploaded it on to Adobe Photoshop and begun to edit it. I begun by turning the picture black and white by darkening the contrast effects to give it a spookier look match our genre. We placed the image where we wanted it and strectched it slightly using the saftey pin to stop the picture distorting. I then selected the same colour as the photo by using the eye drop tool which picks up a sample of the colour where ever you click.
Using the sample colour we selected I used the paint bucket to fill the whole page in the same colour to make it look as though it was one whole page of A4, as conventional all magazine front covers fit an A4 page. I also added a slightly darker grey at the top using the shape tool and selecting a triangle shape so it would made the masthead stand out to our audience and create an interesting contrast of greys amongst our magazine.
I followed this procedure again and made another rectangle but this time smaller and filled it black to add my skyline on to. On top of the black rectangle I used the text tool to add my skyline and changed the colour of the font to white and also made it bold so it would stand out to the reader as white and black are appealing to the eye as they contrast very well.
I then downloaded a font from dafont.com for the title that we all agreed on as we felt it symbolised our horror genre well and filled it black with the paint bucket tool. I then duplicated the layer and filled the duplicate layer red. I then postitioned them both so it looked like the red title has a black 3d effect edge. The colours were symbolic to our genre and the 3d look gave our title depth so it would catch our audience eye.
Underneath my skyline and title I added the issue number, website and date using the text tool and changed the font to Arial and the colour to black to make sure everything fitted our colour scheme. After anaylising other film magazines we noticed they all had pugs on them, therefore we choose to put a conventional pug on our film magazine to attract an audience. Conventionally pugs are meant to look as though there almost stuck on to the page and have a 3D effect to make them stand out. I made my pug by using the shape tool and selecting the elipse option
I then duplicateing the layer and added a glow effect to the duplicate layer, also the duplicate layer was a different coloud so it gave my pug a border which added dimension to it. To complete my pug I added text using the text tool and made sure it filled my filled my pug nicely and there were no noticble gaps. I then added effects to the white writeing with contrasted with the red background it was on to make the writing stand our and also look like it was part of the sticker effect we was trying to achieve.
After placing all the main features on our magazine, we had to add storylines like any conventional magazine, therefore we used the text to add writing. We alternated the colours red and white to make our storylines stand out so one storyline was written in white and the one underneath it was red. We did all the text via the text tool and used the pallete to change the colours and changed the sizes so it didnt look plain and boring. We added small white rectangles in between the storylines to seperate them and make the page look more attractive. We also placed a black rectangle shape via the rectangle shape tool underneath the writing and changed the opacity of the black rectangle so the writing didn't blend in to our background and it could be easily read.
Fianlly we had one last convention to add to our magazine and that was a barode. Therefore I got a barcode of google images and imported it to photoshop and used the arrow to adjust it to make sure it was the size we wanted. I also moved it around via the arrow tool to to see where it would look best and weconventional placed it at the bottom right hand corner along with the price which I added using the text tool.
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