finished cover

cover editing

the difficult part of editing the cover was getting the empire logo behind the character but in front of the background. I had taken a picture of the background where I wanted my character to stand but it was still the most difficult part of editing my magazine cover.

magazine picture

for the picture of my magazine I didn't really have any issues .

now all I have to do is add the empire logo turn it to black and white and add a bar code and other stories as well ans the one about my film

the empire logo will be in black and white as well as the rest of the cover, the empire cover often changes to suit a film here are some examples.

the hulk cover has a cartoony empire logo that it being split in half

the hell boy cover has a logo which is on fire

the batman one is black and has the bat-symbol on it.

finished poster

here is my finished poster i think the poster went as well as it could.

Poster editing

   poster editing went very well I believe I resolved the problem with the shadows and managed to highlight attention to the badge a little more

   with the shadow I created a new layer and drew the shadow on with the paint tool and turned the colour of the pavement darker where I wanted the shadow, I was surprised with how well it turned out and I believe it had an almost professional look about it. with the police badge I zoomed in on Photoshop and made all the colours more crisp this makes it stand out more I believe.

Poster picture

This is the picture I will be using for my film poster. I will turn it black and white for the noir effect I will also make it so the shadow of the character is bolder and try to make the police badge stand out more. I will add the film title at the bottom above the billing card there will be reviews at the side and actor names at the top.

Photo-shoot

   I took the photo for my film poster and magazine cover whilst filming the phone-booth scene I thought this would work well for continuity purposes so it it is the same time in the film poster and magazine as it is in the trailer. this give the effect of increasing the synergy between texts. another reason this was effective was because the actor would of been wearing the same clothes that he was in the trailer. this again works well with the continuity of both the trailer, magazine cover and the film poster. again this will help with the continuity of the texts as time location and weather will all be the same.
   one of the problems I had was creating the iconic noir shadow on the ground, I couldn't get a hold of lighting equipment to do this; however I feel confident enough with Photoshop to create a shadow on there whilst editing together my film poster.
   the only other problem I had was the fact that the police badge a key piece of synergy for the project does not shoe up well on the pictures I will try to find a way to combat this and bring attention to it, again whilst I edit the pictures.
   with the magazine article i felt everything went okay and that there were no major issues with it.