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Ancillary Task Magazines Bethany Harvey

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Ancillary TaskMagazines

Bethany Harvey

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Magazine DrawingsBefore producing my magazine, I did a pencil draft on what I want it to look like. After I produced the first drawing draft, I wanted to see what colours would work best so I coloured a third of the magazine draft and then once I’d seen what colours I liked, I made a new draft and coloured it all in. For my magazine, I wanted all the students to appear in this one just so the audience can see who features in the film. I put them in order of size, so that it looked in proportion and so you could see all the characters clearly. I drew these drawings, first with pencil, then pen and then all in colour so that I had an idea of what I wanted. I put the magazine title at the top, because this is what is usually found in most magazines and also, overlapped the title with the main image to show how reputable the magazine is. I placed the film title across the image so it’s noticeable to what film the image goes to. This is the drawings of my first magazine draft, of what I would like.

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Magazine Drawings continued...Just in case I didn’t like my first magazine draft, I produced some more drawings so that I can have two different ideas in which I can use for my magazine. This magazine drawing has more horror effects to make it suit the magazine, so I had an idea to how much information I wanted on my magazine cover. This drawing I got the idea from a part of my trailer, which is where the figure is looking through the books at the audience to make them feel more engaged, and I thought that using this image it would help the audience to have an idea to what the film could be about, but not giving to much away. I have kept the title the same, but changed the title of the film differently, as I have added the clock behind the title and also to have blood dripping from the title so it looks more effective.

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Magazine Draft 1After producing the drawings of an idea of what I want my magazine to look like, I produced the idea onto the computer. As you can see the magazine looks plain and doesn’t look very effective to the genre of the magazine and the film. However, from doing the drawings first and then producing the magazine, I knew what sort of pictures I needed to take and also, how the layout would be.

Meanwhile, after producing the first draft of my magazine, my thoughts were that I didn’t like it and that I wanted to change a few things to make it better and more suitable and because of this I produced another magazine, but with the improvements I wanted to make.

I produced this magazine on Adobe Photoshop CS4, which I found difficult to use at first, but as I started to product the draft of my magazine I found lots of things that I could do to make my magazine more effective and suitable to the genre.

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Magazine 1 Final After producing the first draft of my magazine, there were a number of changes that I wanted to make because I didn’t think my magazine looked effective or suitable for it’s genre.

The things I changed are;• The colour of the background from white to black so that it looked more ‘Horrific’.• I added a feature on the magazine so that it advertises not just the featuring film but other stuff to, this also made the magazine look more full.• I moved the title of the film down to the bottom just above the news line at the bottom.• I used the same font as the title for the feature at the side which is in a ‘blood drop’ to emphasise the horror genre.

Because of these improvements my magazine now looks more effective to the horror genre so that it will attract the right targeted audience, as well as the film looking more horrifying because of the darker background and the stern look on the cats faces.

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Magazine Draft 2After producing the drawings of an idea of what I want my second draft of my magazine to look like I produced the idea onto the computer using Photoshop CS4. However, after producing the drawing draft onto the computer I saw that some of the things I wanted to go in place, actually didn’t look well on the magazine. Therefore, I didn’t copy the draft I drew completely to how it looks because I saw straight away some of the things I needed to change.

Meanwhile, after producing the draft of my next magazine idea, my thoughts were that I didn’t like it to much and that I wanted to change a few things to make it better and more suitable and because of this I produced another magazine, but with the improvements I wanted to make.

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Magazine 2 FinalAfter producing the first draft of my second magazine idea, there were a number of changes that I wanted to make because I didn’t think my magazine looked effective or suitable for it’s horror genre.

The things I changed are;• The colour of the background from white to black so that it looked more ‘Horrific’.• I got rid of the second blood drop because it didn’t look as effective as I planned.• The title format is now different, because I felt like I should relate my magazine to my posters so that it’s recognisable for the audience, therefore I changed the font of the title of the film, and replaced it with the format of the title from my chosen poster idea. • I moved the barcode to the top because I thought that seeing all the books was that important.• I removed the clock because the new title already has it in there.• I changed the main image to greyscale and this was so the red eye effect I created on Photoshop would show up more on the character behind the books.

Because of these improvements my magazine now looks more effective to the horror genre so that it will attract the right targeted audience, as well as the film looking more horrifying because of the darker background and the image I have used looks more scarier. Also, this magazine final also relates to my poster and the film because the main image is out of the film, I just used the green screen to place the eye behind the books.

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FINAL CHOSEN MAGAZINE

COVERI chose this particular magazine cover because;

• It’s suitable to the genre of the magazine and the film• It’s an appropriate colour scheme to the theme of the magazine.• The magazine relates to the poster and the film.• It is appealing and attractive to the audience, as well as giving them a slight insight to what it’s about.

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Images I used for my magazine ideasI took 13 images in total but chose these 2 because they were more effective and appropriate to the magazine cover and related to my drafts well.

I used the eye picture because it was the image that was closest to the eye as the others were half a face and I decided that I only wanted the eye showing so I could change the eye colour on Photoshop.

There was a complication withthe other image being takenbecause I didn’t have a greenscreen big enough to fit the whole of the cast in. Therefore, when editing theimage on Photoshop I was able to use the magic wand on thegreen screen part, but I had touse the rubber on the other parts where the green screendidn’t cover.