PLANNING FOR MAGAZINES
Our Chosen magazine is 'Empire Magazine'. We chose this magazine because we prefer the title logo rather than the title logo of 'Total Film Magazine', we specifically appreciate again the simplicity of the magazine and the focus on the central image in front of the magazine title. The colour scheme again is simple yet attention grabbing and keeps the layout of the magazine tight and clean therefore giving a more sleek professional look to it. The red will be ideal for us to use as our film title in our teaser poster is also red to connote blood for the horror genre. 
For example, the 'HellBoy 2' cover on 'Empire Magazine' edits the title of the magazine to show a relationship between the film that is advertised on the cover and the title of the magazine. By doing the same with our film magazine, it will show continuity between our media products.INITIAL PLANNING AND SKETCHES
Initial sketch
Our chosen central image for magazine cover...
We not only used photoshop for our magazine cover but we also used Microsoft office PowerPoint to create smaller images that can be uploaded to photoshop and added in separately. For example, we created our puff on PowerPoint and then just uploaded it onto photoshop to add onto our magazine cover. FIRST DRAFT- Our first draft only includes the written text on our cover, as you can see we have edited the 'Empire' magazine logo title in the same style as our film title to show a relationship between the magazine and our film. This also shows continuity.
We chose a red, black and white colour scheme, to keep the colours neat and tidy. Also the red colour can connote the genre of Horror.
This is our edited central image, adding a more darker tone to the actual image and enhancing the shadow on the mask to create strong contrasts of shadow. In our final product, we will merge the written text magazine cover and the edited central image together therefore creating a final magazine cover.
