Finished Film Magazine

The two pictures above show the images that I was deciding from to put onto my Magazine front cover. The reason that I wanted to used the top picture was because it is of the woods/grass area that I thought would look good because it is in the park and the park is a nice place during the day but at night it is a lonely scary place to be and isn't recommend to go to 'When the lights go out' which ties down with the slogan and what the film is about. The reason why I didn't use the picture because when I took it I didn't realise that there was a squirrel in it and a squirrel doesn't really show horror or creepiness. The second picture that I chose to use was the picture of the tree with the word run on it, I think that is shows something creepy and mysterious because someone could be running from 'THE DARKNESS' and see the tree that is telling them to run, it makes it more dramatic and continues the story line like I wanted it to, but nothing is revealed in the trailer. This image will be used on my front cover and I will make it work to the best of my ability, and make sure that is represents the trailer and the film.

This is my Magazine front cover for 'THE DARKNESS' the image that I have used for my magazine front cover took a lot of time to think and make sure that I made the right decision that would promote the music as much as possible, I believe that this ties well with the poster as the poster shows the hooded figure heading towards 'THE DARKNESS' and this shows the tree with the word 'RUN' on it, this shows the that I have thought about what I want to have on my magazine front cover and the poster that tie together with trailer.The picture was taken on the 25th October 2011 as me and my group were filming in the woods for our film trailer. The colour scheme for this magazine front cover is red, yellow and white I choose these colours because I want the text and the information to stand out and people to notice  what is on the cover and want to buy the magazine to see the stories inside. There is the masthead at the top of page was created on cooltext.co.uk I wanted to make it different and out of the ordinary so I created it on that website to make sure that no one else had the text, all I had to do was to pick the text I wanted, the affect, and the colour of it, then I clicked the download button and I placed them onto the poster to allow them to fit the way that I wanted them to when the poster was complete, this stands out and would be noticeable on the magazine stand in a shop. The next thing I did to this magazine front cover was to make the header above the masthead, this was also made on cooltext.co.uk very easy to make again and has a great affect on it and stands out which is what I wanted it to do. The next thing I did was the text on the page such as 'WARNER BROS REJECT SWEENEY TODD TWO PARAMOUNT THEATRE TO SUE WB' I choose the text that I wanted to keep on the front cover which was 'OCR A std' and I used size '25.73pt' and most of it is in yellow and some of it is in red, they don't have any affects on them as I think it looks ok without it and stands out without the affects as well. I added the black background to the text because it seemed to look better than it did when the text was just over the picture I added this by clicking on the 'rectangle tool' which allowed me to put the shape to the size that I wanted it to be and for it to fit behind the text perfectly. I added the bar code to show that it is for sale and people have to pay for it and I also added the price underneath the masthead to show the people how much the magazine is and also on the other side of this is the issue number which shows how many issues of the magazine have been published and what number this one is. The 'FREE 'THE DARKNESS' POSTER & BRACELET' part was done again using the rectangle tool and picking a custom shape to put the text in and turn it to the side to make it stand out a bit better than it would without the frame on it and the rectangle behind it so that there isn't just a line of text that are on the page over the picture.