Film Magazine Cover: Proposed Cover

Finally, an almost finished version of my film magazine cover! I'll see if my teacher has anything to say about it after Christmas, and if not... well, then. Onwards!

Film Magazine Cover: Construction

Here's a guide as to how I created my magazine cover.


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Playing Judas: Final Film Poster

After a comment from my teacher advising me to increase the size of the actors' names, I've completed my final film poster for Playing Judas.

Film Magazine Cover: Masthead Construction

It took me a long time to design the masthead for my magazine, mostly because I went in there with absolutely no idea of what I wanted other than the Milford Black font and the colour red. I opened my masthead in Photoshop in the hopes that inspiration would come, and some did. I made the masthead a dark red, because I was taking inspiration from the famous Empire masthead but not copying (and I, personally, preferred the darker red anyway). After this I made it a bit bigger - and ended up sharpening the edges a little, too - and then used the 'burn' and 'dodge' tools to create light and dark sides and blur them into shading. This gave my font the subtle implication of being 3D bubble writing.

Playing Judas: Proposed Film Poster

Here is my final film poster for my group's police/crime thriller film, Playing Judas.

Film Poster: Construction

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Film Poster: Font Testing

My group and I went through a lot of argument about which font we were using. It took us far too long to settle on one design for all of us to have, but, in the end, I think we chose a good one.
First of all, I went through a load of stamp-like fonts because I wanted a grungy feel to my own font.

My group, however, weren't too keen on the shapes and styles of any of these. We decided to keep a plain font and download some grunge brushes to use on Photoshop. In the end, we decided that this font - Coolvetica - was the only one that suited all of our styles.

For my poster, as I said, I wanted some more grunge to imply the dark side of the proceedings in our film.

I had some trouble with the grunge as I found that either the brush was too big or too small, so it took me a few tries to get it right, but in the end I managed to settle for something I was comfortable with and ended up with this piece of art: