Final Magazine

Whilst researching Magazine covers i founf the main influence would be from 'Empire' magazine.
As i mentioned in my previous posts, my main style model was the Batman cover of Anne Hathaway simply because of her stance - meshed in with the Drag Me To Hell idea of hands dragging the model down.
However when it came to the photoshoot for my cover i found that, by using the Batman stance, it left out too much bare space around the model and i didn't want to clutter it up with text and ameture font.
So i used a head shot image of the main character screaing with hands dragging her face, still capturing the elements of Drag Me To Hell;



I added 'photo filter; dark blue' to the image but it leant toward the grey tinit. Along with a smooth gradient overlay and a pattern that added a vain ridden face. I then added the featured/main article which is the film name 'Sanatorium';

It is easily noticeable that i amplified the mist effect on this step, due to the title darkening the whole magazine cover. because of the title doing so i thought of a colour sequence that stands out, conrasts the feature and yet, has the 'Empire' tint;

As you can see, i chose to folow the different Gold palet. I saw this colour sequence used in 'The Hobbit' special edition feature and it had a unique feel to it so i wanted to create that approach to the buyers and for how different and 'standing out from the crowd' Sanatorium is.

The features, howeve varied from white and gold because i wanted to mix it up, and most if not ALL o fthe cover examples that i observed had this technique;

Hers is my final cover, i expremented with all my ideas that i had towards this and altered elements throughout the process but i am overall happy with the outcome.

Final Poster

Whilst doing the photoshoot for the magazine i noticed that the planned stance of the main image for the cover would leave too much of empty space around it regardless of all the font i could use to fill it in.
So i changed my idea to a head shot;

This image is inspired by the 'Drag me to hell' poster featured in my previous posts, the way the model is screaming and posing with the hands grabbing her face (each representing her split personality) carries out the concept of the trailer, but not giving away too much.

When observing the images i took i thought how i could fiddle around with them to create a creepy, eerie effect but by not overdoing it. 

So i started with copying these three images and merging down each visable layer so it looks like she is wrything in pain and confusion;

                                                                      

i then altered the brightness and contrast because the image was too bright;

I thought this was too dark, so i contemplated adding a photo philter but i was not aiming for the amture effect so i tinted it with blue and added a 90' gradient effect;

Obviously, the postr then needed a title, production company label and institutional information so i started with the Film title but i made it white so it contrasted the model image;



Gradually building up the poster with the right font size, company rights ect;

Then the additional 'From the director of...' post to create my final poster;