Editing - Film Magazine Cover

We decided to edit our magazine cover on a program called Photoscape. Due to the fact that we were unable to include the funeral aspect in our trailer, we felt we would take photos of our main character in black as if she has just been to a funeral. Along with this, we wanted her pose to be away from the camera, almost as if she is to upset to look up therefore conveying her feelings.  We did a photo-shoot against a white wall with a spot light in the hope of increasing the professional nature of our magazine.  These are some photos from our photo shoot. We each took a turn to take photos to ensure we got each of our ideas across, including different each of our different positions and angles. Her image in these photos really emphasise the change she goes through by the end of the film. 

 These are photos taken of our group taking photos. This is also our original image that we used on our magazine 





 In order to gain the best picture we could we downloaded some editing software - Photo scape. This allowed us to edit our original photo, add text, add more pictures if necessary and other effects that we found useful. We did encounter some problems when making the title for our magazine cover ‘latest’ we had to create this on paint to get exactly the font and size that we wanted. We then added this as if it were a picture and aligned it exactly with the image.

when editing in paint we did have to make sure every letter was black around the edges and some had white patches. We did this to ensure it looked realistic. 

This is some of the features of photo scape we used. The main features that we used were resize, bright,colour, sharpen and bloom. 

At first, we edited our original photo to much and found that it did not look as effective, there was to much change that was not needed. We compared this to our original photo and found we preferred that one. Therefore we began again, we simply edited lightly rather than changed everything. We changed Deepen, brighten, and darken. 

We edited so much so that the light from the spotlight blended to much with her face. I was hard to see her nose and left side of her face clearly therefore we started again. 

We also inserted text. This was key to our magazine cover, we had a consistent font through out along with colour scheme. More will be shown in the deconstruction of our final magazine cover.

On the original photo, the lamp stick was clearly visible and we felt that it effected the picture making it less professional and realistic. We used something called ‘clone stamp’ this meant that we could duplicate part of the image, so we did this on the area very next to the lamp stand in the picture, meaning we kept the colour consistency from dark to light. This allowed us to get rid of this area and it looks as if it were the wall. 

We were also able to crop the image, we did this as the shape of the photo was not like a magazine. We cropped the top and the bottom part, we did this so that the title would cover part of the actress' head. This is very typical of magazine covers as everything is linked together. 

Although we did encounter some difficulties with the title, and our original editing with to much. We felt that we managed to complete it successfully and the completed product looks realistic.