Film Magazine Front Cover Ideas & Development

Here is a black and white version that we sampled for the film magazine front cover but we decided not to use this version as the grey tones were too similiar to the grey fonts that we had used on the taglines and titles. This is the final edited version of the image that we placed onto our magazine front cover, here the brightness and contrast, hue and saturation and exposure was hightened to highlight Jimmy's face more and to show how he is in the spotlight and is the main character in focus.

This image has been cropped and outlined with the lasso tool on 'Abode Photoshop Elements' ready to be placed onto the film magazine front as there background on that is also black so it will instantly blend. The next stage in editing for this image would be to alter the lighting, brightness and contrast and saturation to add more colour to and to define Jimmy's face more.

This is the original un-edited version of the final photograph that we used for our film magazine front cover. We knew that we were going to cut out all of the background in this image and just use the outline of Jimmy's frame to place in the centre of the film magazine front cover. We also knew that we were going to have to alter the lighting as it appeared to be quite shiny on Jimmy's face in this original image, we also needed to alter the red-eye that appeared from where I used the flash as it was night time. This is one of the un-edited images that we used as part of our ideas for our film magazine front cover. We decided not to use this image as the model that we used was not pulling the right expression that we were looking for so we decided to see if it would work better with Jimmy looking downwards and to the side, this proved to work better for a more sullen and mysterious look linking to the violent character that he is trying to portray on the front of the film magazine front cover.