We noticed that the Magazine's title had changed over time and so we made sure to use the latest version. We changed the date to May/June 2011 and added it onto our cover.
We used the same picture of Saidah as she had the perfect expression on her face, but instead of her whole body we just used her head as most of the issues in the 'Little White Lies' magazine. We placed it in the middle of the page, with the Magazine name overlapping it like it does in the other issues.
We created this background by putting some different toned purples and blues on the page, then used the smudge tool to make swirls which created a mysterious dreamlike effect. We then put an artistic effect on it that made it look like a painting and made the edges darker and slightly sharper. We were very happy with the outcome. Even though the background is completely different to our poster and trailer, as it is much darker, we still feel that it suited our film.
We added several artistic effects on the image of Saidah which made it look like a painting. We were experimenting with the effects and so we cannot remember exactly which ones we have on the image now. We made a few versions that we then chose from:
This is the bright version - this would portray it as a comedy better than the other versions as it is more colourful, but it didn't go well with the background - it looks a little out of place.
This is the duller, more purple version - we liked this version the most as it matched the background perfectly and clearly portrayed the dream aspect to our film, whilst also being simpler than the others.
This is the version that was in between the other two - it is still bright, but it goes better with the background and is also artistic - simpler
We were unsure which to pick so we asked a few people which they preferred - they all said they preferred the duller purple one (the one in the middle), we also liked this one as well and so we have decided to use this one.
Below is the completed magazine cover:
We are now starting to create our magazine cover. We have looked at different magazines to find out which one would best suit our film and which one would actually feature our film. We have chosen to create a cover for the 'Little White Lies' magazine.
Here is a presentation that shows the reasons why we chose this magazine:
This is our final Movie poster:
We think we have clearly and effectively portrayed the genre of the film in our poster, whilst also telling the audience a bit about the plot. The bridge symbolises the long, tough journey that our main character has to face in order to cure her problem of falling asleep at random times. We included the pillow to represent her dilemma and we made the background colourful to portray the genre. The glow we placed around the main character helps make her the focus of the poster and the cut out effect we used on the buildings also helps to show the genre.
We created a bridge on Photoshop, using the floor that Saidah was standing on in the picture we took of her, by cutting out the ground on either side of her and then using the 'clone' and 'blend' tools to make the floor look like a path dissapearing in the distance. We darkened the floor, to make it look more realistic, using a 'Satin' effect which also hid any dirt that was on there. We created rectangles to use as the bars on the bridge and placed them along the edge of the path we made.
Once we placed Saidah on the page and positioned her on the bridge we realised that it didn't look very real and so we used a 'burn' effect on the ground behind her to resemble a shadow of her body.
We added in the film title and release date in the same font we had used in the film trailer at the top of the page above the buildings so that it was clear enough to read easily.
We used a 'cut out' artistic effect on the buildings that we added in behind her to make them look colourful rather than the dull colours they actually are. We then created the background (i.e. the sky) by placing some colours on the page and using the 'smudge' tool to merge the colours together which created what looked like a sunset.
We then created the text that goes at the bottom of most film posters:
We searched thorugh the fonts on Photoshop until we came across one that resembled the text they use on real posters (as shown above) then followed the structure, changing what it said to suit our film.
Yesterday afternoon Bareen and I went all the way to central London to find some buildings that we could photograph to include in the background of our poster - we looked for clean, interesting buildings that were of various shapes and sizes so that the background looked more like a city. We had a wide variety of pictures and so we chose a few that we really liked and edited them on Photoshop - we did our best to cut around them without leaving any background or taking a chunk out of the building, so that we were just left with the buildings. We are now trying to place them in a good position on our poster.
This is a prezi that shows the pictures we took:
Below is our actual final poster that we have made the changes to:
Below is our actual final poster that we have made the changes to:
