Magazine Layout, Flatplan and Photshop

Initially, we looked at a couple of Fangoria magazines for inspiration as they made horror magazines that could aid us in our construction process. This was one that we looked back at a lot as it was something that was really intriguing and had eye-catching features overall. From this specific issue, we liked the idea of a film strip so we decided that we would use this as inspiration for our own product because we thought that my adding this feature, we could add other movies that would help the audience and readers identify our movie within the same genre.

This was a flatplan I designed to aid us in the construction process of our magazine. As you can see, I added the film strip on the left hand side of the cover as we wanted the main to be on the right hand side along with all the cover-lines. We also wanted our masthead to stay on top as we wanted the main image to be the focus of the cover. We also decided to keep the title of our film just below the main image to give them equal importance. We followed common conventions when designing this flatplan such as the advertisement of other movies, other features and images from real media texts.

Here are some images showing the editing process of our magazine. At first, we thought an image of half the face would look effective as it would stand out due to it being unique. However, in the first image, there was a shadow being created which made the image look less professional. We tried adding a film strip on the side according to our flatplan however, this made it worse and really distorted. We also added a graphic and the title of our name yet this didn’t look cohesive. We noticed that on the first image, the hair wasn’t in place properly so we used the modify and clone tool on Photoshop to get some of the hair and add some fake one on the end. We then took another picture in the same form but this still wasn’t as effective as a full face image would be so we finally took a full face image for our final product.