Evaluation Magazine cover

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When creating my final product the Magazine cover I first started researching and analysing previous film magazine covers such as Empire and Total film. I looked at the similarities and the differences of these different magazine covers. I also analysed where the main focus of the magazine cover is, the main title of the magazine cover and the text for example on the Empire magazine cover it tells the audience that there is a "Massive preview special" and then in smaller writing underneath shows "45 new movies you need to know about right now"  this gives the audience a preview of what you will be reading about inside the magazine.

My final product is a film magazine cover, I have named my final piece Cinimer. When I first starting designing my magazine cover on Photoshop I had problems with the text on my background. The way how I had solved my problem was by making my text much bolder and used the special effect Shadow drop so that you way able to read the writing without it contracting with the background picture.

When creating the magazine cover I feel that best features of this magazine cover would be how I have placed the main focus point as I have lighten up his face and his body but darkened the side of his face to give the audience the impression that this character is not a friendly person and he was a dark side towards him that not everyone can see.

The thing's that I feel went bad when creating the magazine cover would be the text on the cover. The black text behind the bold red strip can be slightly difficult to read if the person that is reading it is slightly far away, for example if someone is going into the shop to buy something and pass the magazine aisle they might not realise that the magazine tells the audience that the stories that are inside this magazine has an exclusive story about the new film You can't run but you kan hide.

If I was to re create this magian cover again I would change the colour's of the title face and change the positioning of the text so that the text isn't so close to the edge, as when the magazine cover is printed the text might become but of the page making it impossible for the audience to read. I would do this by chaining the size of the font so that it doesn't cover the face of the main focus point. 

The differences and similarities that my magazine cover has to other magazine covers for example Total film is that I have used the same style as Total film by making my main focus in the centre of my page. Also when designing my cover I used the same technique of having the name of my main focus beneath my character in the center with the ad World exclusive above inside a dark red box. The differences that my magazine cover has to Total film is that with the main title of the cover I have put it in front of my main focus as with the magazine Total film they have put their main title behind their main focus.

Evaluation DVD sleeve

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When creating my DVD sleeve I looked at the purpose, content, reception and the audience of other DVD sleeves. Every DVD sleeve has three faces that is the front cover, the back cover and the spine of the sleeve. When researching about DVD sleeves I analysed Harry Potter, This is the end and Angus thongs and perfect snogging DVD sleeves. When researching different DVD sleeves I mostly looked at Harry Potter as this format of DVD sleeve was very similar to mine as both films have action. When creating my DVD sleeve I looked at the aspects of creating a similar look towards the Harry Potter sleeve, for example the Harry Potter sleeve uses a narrative background on the back face of the character Voldormort, this character is the villain of the film as I have used the Character Kate as the character is vulnerable trying to fight her way from the villain in You can Run but you kant hide as the DVD sleeve is looking towards a older age range of 15+. 

My final product is a stalker horror DVD sleeve. Before making my final piece I wrote a proposal on what I wanted my product to look like. In my proposal I explained that my main focus for my DVD sleeve would be an abandoned shed which will be highlighted from the rest if the sleeve, this is very similar as what I have created is an abandon shed as my back ground which is a lot lighter than anything else in the background as everything else is much darker and gritty looking, I have used this techniques because I want the audience feel as if they are being pulled into the shed. I have made the character much darker than everything else in the DVD sleeve because it gives off the impression that he is dangerous and that there is a dark soul inside him waiting to give out an attack to the vulnerable. My main focus on my DVD sleeve is different to the focus on my movie poster as I have used the main character Ben where as in the movie poster I used Kate as the main focus. This is because I wanted the audience to feel as if Kate is the villain in the film as this character looks as if she is running towards the audience, this creates more of a twist and surprise when the audience watches the film. 

The thing's that I felt went well when creating the DVD sleeve would be who I lightened up the abandoned shed behind the villain to show the audience that this is the location where the story is happening. This gives more of an impact on how creepy and how much the main character is actually a psycho.

The things that I felt went bad when creating the DVD sleeve would be the type face on the spine of the sleeve. The reason why I feel like this part of the DVD sleeve isn't as good as other parts of the sleeve is because it is really hard to read what it is saying, as the colours blend in with the background. I also needed to change the colour of the word 'But' as if I kept this word the same colour as the other words, the audience would be able to see the word creating confusion.

If I was to improve the DVD sleeve I would to lighten up the whole of the cover and use the different colours as this DVD sleeve is very dark and glum and makes it hard for the audience to read the text that has been put on the sleeve to help the audience know what the film is about and the different features used within the film.

The differences and similarities that my DVD sleeve has towards the DVD sleeve Harry Potter have are that the similarity between You can't run but you kan hide and Harry Potter is that in the back face Harry Potter has a narrative back drop for their back ground of Voldermort fighting with his wand out. As on my back face I have a narrative back drop of the character Kate lying down in the floor injured. The difference between my DVD sleeve and the Harry Porter DVD sleeve is that in the Harry Potter sleeve they have uses scene picture from the film where is on my sleeve my content does not include scene pictures and has a small description about the film.

Magazine cover

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When creating my magazine cover I used Photoshop. Before I created my magazine cover I needed to find out the measurements for a magazine cover which was 20.88 cm in width and 29.7cm in length.

The first thing thing that I did when making my magazine cover was edit my main focus point. When doing this I used the main picture that I had used in my DVD sleeve. When editing my main picture I used the Magic wand tool to remove the background so that I twas clear to put onto a blank page. once I had scaled my picture to the right size, I then when onto Image, Adjustments then went onto Brightness/ Contrast so that the picture would have more of a dark shine to it. I used colour balance to that I could make the colour of my picture more blue/red.

Once I finished editing my main focus for my magazine cover I then edited the title of my magazine cover. By doing this I used the text tool and used the font Lucida Bright and for the letter C I used the font Future. Then I went onto special effects to give the text a shadow drop. 

Once I edited the title of my magazine cover I then worked on the extra bits of text that I needed for my cover, this is so the audience will know what kind of magazine it is and what you will be able to read inside the magazine. For this I used the font Lucida Grande. I then used Special effects to give the text a shadow drop so that the text did not become lost within the background. 

The final thing that I did when creating my magazine cover was adding a bar code from the corner of the cover. When doing this I needed to scale the bar code to size so that it didn't look too big on my cover. I also taken a picture from Google of the film Home front. Once I scaled the picture to size I then used the paint brush tool and painted the bottom of the picture red so that the american flag become more bold. 

Analysis magazine covers

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In my blog I am going to be analysing two different magazine covers.

For my first magazine cover I have chosen Empire. In this type of magazine cover you can see that the main focus is in the centre right of the page. It shows a picture of the character Harry Potter with cuts and bruises on his face, this shows the audience that in the next Harry Potter film Harry Potter will be fighting to his death once again.

The main title of this magazine cover is in large red bold writing the type face looks as if it is mirroring the empire state building itself.

In the bottom, left corner you can see I picture of the Wolverine which looks like a scene from the film. On the other corner there is a barcode. This shows you that the reception of this magazine cover is found in supermarkets.

There is text on either side of the main picture telling the audience about the different films that you could read about in the magazine. It also highlights and stars the main film, it also shows you what page you can find the film on. This gives the impact that this film is the magazines best feature and that this magazine will be showing more about Harry Potter than another film.

For my second magazine cover I have chosen Total film This type of magazine cover it is similar to the Empire magazine as the main focus on this magazine is the character Sherlock Holmes. I large writing it shows you the name of the main film that it is showing on this cover. It also shows you in smaller writing underneath the film title a tagline for the movie.

At the very top of the magazine cover it tells you that there are the 10 coolest movies that are being made right now. in the magazine cover Empire it also tells you that they have a massive preview special for the 14 new movie that you need to know about. These two magazine covers are very similar as they have all the same features apart from the title of the magazine cover.

The main title for this magazine cover is in bold capital letters that is placed behind the main picture, where as on the Empire cover the title is placed over the main picture.

This magazine cover have text on either side of its main picture which tells you about the extra, sneaky and the basters that you are able to find when looking inside this magazine.

DVD Sleeve

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When creating my DVD sleeve I used photoshop. Before making my DVD sleeve I needed to find out the measurements from a previous DVD sleeve so that I knew what size to make my template.

Once I measured a previous DVD sleeve I then created my background for my three faces. I did this by using my original picture from my movie poster that I found from Google. To create the background for  the back of my sleeve I used the Rectangular Marquee tool to select the area from the main picture so that I could duplicate the layer. I then rotated the second copy vertically.

Once I finished creating my background for my DVD sleeve I then searched for the different symbols that I needed to put onto my DVD sleeve. For example I needed to put the age certificate onto my sleeve. Before placing the certificate I needed to remove the white background so that it was clear. I did this by using the Magic wand tool, i selected the white background bit by bit to delete it. 

The third thing that I did when creating my DVD sleeve was place the title of my film onto the front and the spine of my sleeve. On the front of my DVD sleeve I have used the original positioning that I have used on my movie poster. When placing my title onto the spine of my sleeve I needed to change the writing to white so that the writing did not disappear within the background. I did this my using the paint brush and painting over it. I then rotated the text and scaled it to size so that I would lie within the spine.

Once I positioned the title of my film I then Placed my main character onto my sleeve. When editing my characters i used the Magic wand tool and selected the white background of my characters. Once I selected the part that I wanted to remove I then Inverted so that it would then remove the background and not the actual picture. Once I had used the Magic wand tool to delete the background I then used the rubber to smoothen the edges and to make sure that I haven't left and parts in the background. 

Once I had finished editing my characters and placed them onto my sleeve I then edited my blurb so that the size and the colour of my blurb didn't become lost in my background so that the audience is able to read it when they turn to the back of my sleeve. I also had to edit the writing of my blurb as I installed the blurb from my colleges learning box. 

Once I finished positioning everything I then wrote out the extra pieces for my DVD sleeve sleeve. I created different shaded boxes from my Special features, the Sound track and for Subtitles that you can get on my DVD. I also wrote out a small description about my film and used the font Futura. 

DVD sleeve proposal

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Proposal for Creative media Production Project.

The working title for my DVD sleeve is You can't run but you Kan hide. In my film there will be two main characters called Ben and Kate who are best friends since primary school. In the film you will find out that Ben has an obsessive crush on Kate. He creates a plan to make sure that Kate will never have a boyfriend ever again. On doing this he takes Kate to an old farm shed in the middle of no where. In my working title I have used the letter K instead of a C in the word can, this is used to create an effect to show how twisted Ben actually is. 

The genre of my DVD sleeve is going to be a stalker horror. The reason why I am going with this genre is because the genre is very creative and I was able to thinking about many different idea that I could do for my DVD sleeve.

My target audience for my DVD sleeve would be within the ages of 15-55. The type of sleeve that I am going to be creating will mostly appeal to people that will have a great thrill for being scared. When creating my DVD sleeve I will be reaching out for the younger audience than the older as they will be around the same ages of the main characters which will give them the effect that this could also happen to them, which will create a scarer effect. 

The storyline for my movie poster is going to be about two college students Ben and Kate. Ben and Kate are best friends and have known each other since they were in primary school. As they grow up Ben's crush for Kate becomes more and more obsessive which sends him out of control and insane. This causes him to become highly jealous of the different boys that will come Kate's way. As he becomes more jealous over these boys, he starts to plot ideas on how he could remove Kate so that he can have her all to him self. Ben takes Kate on a camping trim and ends up taking her to an old farm shed which is full of farm equipment and weapons. 

The style that I am going to used when creating my DVD sleeve will be dark, mysterious, foggy, gritty and which have a cold impact towards the audience. For the background of my DVD sleeve I am going to have an old farm shed that I am going to hight from the rest of my sleeve, to show the audience that this is my main setting and that there will be trouble found within these creepy walls. 

What I am going to be thinking about when creating my DVD sleeve in order to not upset social groups. I will be putting an age restriction of 15. This is so that i swill have no complaints from parents of children that will be under aged to watch such graphic pictures and will be too scared. So that I will not be copyrighting I am going to be taking the pictures myself and create the title myself on Illustration. 

Movie poster

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For my final piece I created a stalker horror movie poster called 'You can't run but you kan hide'. The first thing that I did when creating my movie poster was use illustrator to design the outline for my font for the title and the tag line for my poster. The type face that I started off with was 'Times new roman' when making my outline, then once  I had my format I then went onto 'Type' then chose 'Create outlines' When doing this I am about to stretch the surface of the font and curve it into the way that I think suites the name of my poster by clicking onto the blue points and pulling each one bit by bit. 

Then once I had my font ready to put on to my movie poster I then used photoshop to build everything together. The first step that I made was find a background for my movie poster. For my background I went onto Google images and looked up old farm shed. Once I found the right shed for my movie poster I then scaled it to the size of my canvas. 

The second thing that I did when creating my movie poster was taking and choose the right picture of my main character (Kate).  I unlocked the picture so that I was about to edit it, I did this by using the magic wand tool. Then I selected the parts of the picture that I did not want and deleted it bit my bit. Then once I had removed the background of my character I then scaled her to size of my movie poster so that she did not look too big or too small. I also had to place my character so that she looked as if she was running away from the shed.

What I had my background and my main character in place I then went onto the learning box of my college for my blurb. Once I uploaded my blurb to photoshop I then edited the writing to the characters that are playing in my film and edited the names of the director, editor and the film company. Once I finished editing the writing I had to chose the colour of my text so that it didn't become invisible on my background, i also needed to scale it to size so that It didn't look to big.