This shows the progress of our magazine cover. We wanted to tie it clearly with the poster, and the colour palette and general approach of the smoke-filled scene makes it clear that this is the same product being advertised in both texts. We looked at a lot of magazine covers we had in the classroom with groups of three characters advertising action films, and we found that a common format was to allow the top half to third of the cover to be dominated by the image and to have teaser text and photos of other films below. We also noticed that a shot of an action sequence was often used as the background of the bottom half to give a more dramatic feel.
We have followed this layout idea here. We have used our extracted photo and added it to a plain grey background with the smoke effect. We have used a photo of the location we filmed our military shots in as the background but made this layer much more opaque. We also used the burn, smudge and blur tools to make the images blend well. This was a time consuming process and you can see the progress in the different jpegs presented here.
We are now starting to think about the composition of the bottom half of the cover, The placement of text and smaller images is the hardest part of the process of creating a cover and we expect to go through several drafts before we find a composition we are happy with.
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