Finished front Cover

FINAL IMAGE

When taking my final image I removed the studio lights as I didn't feel as if they were doing very much and I used the flash on the camera. This picture came out a lot clearer and her face was lit up a lot more. Also in this picture you could see the gun where as on the first photo I took it wasn't very clear. Also she is looking directly into the camera which engaged with the audience and gave the impression that she was looking at whoever was reading the front cover.

FRONT COVER CONTENT

On the front cover of already existing Empire magazines there are many different titles which mention different articles that you will find in the magazine, a bar code, promotions for merchandise and they are in different sized fonts. In order for me to make my front cover look as similar to existing ones as possible I needed to make sure I included these features as well. As my magazine was focused on horror films I had to make sure the features related to this and also mentioned my article.

This is what my front cover looked like when I had added all the features. 'Carrie strikes again' was referring to an article about the new remake of the film Carrie which linked in as that was one of the films that I had spoke about in my timeline article. 'Going back in time to 1960 horrors' linked directly to my article and so did the banner which included 'the final girl'. The circle down the bottom was referring to the new film that I created which was about a young boy being influenced by violent video games. I also made sure I had the bar code on there and also above the 'M' in the Empire logo all of the magazines had the month that issue was published, the cost and the website 'empireonline.com' and therefore I made sure I included this also.

FINISHED PIECE

Once I had finished the features for the cover the only thing I had left to do was to put the main image in which I had to cut out my model and make sure I positioned her in front of the Empire logo and also put a background behind her which suited the 'violent' representation. Below is what the finished piece looked like once I had put the image in. I chose to have fire behind her as it connotes danger.