Magazine practical production
Research
1) Use Google to research potential magazines that you could use as your brand/design for this project. Create a shortlist of three potential magazines and embed an example front cover from each one. We recommend looking at lifestyle magazines or a similar genre as these are more achievable to re-create.
2) Choose one of the three magazine brands to use for your project e.g GQ, Vogue or The Gentlewoman. Then find three different front covers for your chosen magazine and embed them in your blogpost. Analyse the fonts, colours and typical design. What is the language or writing style? How are the cover lines written? What camera shot is generally used for the cover image? You need to become an expert in the design and construction of this magazine and its branding.
Each of the empire magazines shares some conventions such as having the Empire font, the selling line usually being about the actor, having a colour scheme of 2 or 3 colours, a reference to movies that will be coming out and that are reviewed within the magazine, a date stamp for the month and year above the 'M' in the title and a barcode that can be seen at either the bottom left or right. Everything is centred around the actor.
1) In your blogpost, write your main cover line (also called the 'main flash') - this is the main cover story that links to your central image. It must be 100% original - all your own words.
The end of an era of slashers, A fight for a multitude of lifetimes, Cassius returns as Jason Vorhees, Rishi as Micheal Myers
2) Briefly plan the image you will need for the cover - model, costume, make-up, lighting etc. At this point, simply describe the image you need to capture.
Model - C will be the model for both characters of Jason and Micheal will be a mask on a dummy head on the floor
Costume - Jason hockey mask, Myers mask, Prop Knife, bat (Machete preferable), overalls, lighting
3) Write the cover lines and any additional text you need for your magazine cover.
A return to the classics, The end of an era
World Exclusive
Must see 2024, 2024 Limited edition
Starring Ari Lehman and Nick Castle
New fallout TV show + Borderlands the movie + Dune Pt. 2 (maybe an original like KillMo)
Photoshoot
Photoshoot
We will do a photoshoot in class next week with lighting and backdrop. However, if you prefer you can arrange your own photoshoot for the cover image in your own time - you can use your phone or your own camera to take an image. If you don't have a phone or camera that is suitable, you can sign out a camera from Mr Harrison.
1) On your planning document, write the date, time and location of your photoshoot and the name of the model or photographer you will use (you can choose anyone to be your cover model or you can be the cover model yourself).
Friday 3rd of may, 11:00 am, DF05, Cassius as model, Matas as Photographer .
Publication to blog and evaluation
1) Once you have completed your design in Photoshop, go to 'File > Save a copy' and save your finished Photoshop magazine cover as a JPEG image. Then, upload it to your blog post.
3) Write a short evaluation of your work: have you succeeded in your brief to create a new, original edition of an existing magazine? Does your cover stand up alongside the genuine covers of your chosen magazine? How professional is your work alongside those genuine examples?
I think that i have successfully created a magazine cover that is new and original and is very similar to the conventions of the EMPIRE magazine. I believe my work to be quite professional however there may be places that can be improved on with some constructive criticism from more people.
4) Finally, what would you do differently if you completed this assignment again?
I think if i were to do this again i would use a full body show of the actor and have the empire magazine title be behind the main actor featured on the magazine otherwise i am quite happy with how the magazine cover turned out.
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