Magazine Cover

Okay, now that the movie poster's done, I just have to do my magazine cover, a bit of evaluation, and I'm basically done.

I'm basically going to design the front cover of a magazine that will have a feature about our film, but to make it quicker my basic design has already been covered by a past version of myself - considering that music magazines often have features about films and things, I figure that if I just make another cover for my fictional magazine I made last year, "Amplified", I can effectively cut down the amount of time spent designing the look of the magazine, and just make a slightly updated version of the cover I made last year. Bit of a cop out, I agree, but considering that time is definitely not on my side concerning this project, the fact that I have something to fall back on is a great timesaver, and one of which I intend to take full advantage of.

Because I didn't go into enough detail in last year's blog, I had to do a bit of guesswork in order to locate the right font I'd used for the magazine last year. However, I eventually found it, and I've set to work on replicating the style I'd come up with last year, but updating it slightly in order to make it feel like the magazine's gone through a number of changes since the one I made in 2011, as well as to indicate that I've gotten a bit better at Photoshop since then. Hopefully.

The font style is "Gill Sans MT", in case there's a future version of me trawling through my old blogs desperately trying to locate the type of font I used in these two magazines. I've learnt from my mistakes.

I also decided to change the title to "AmpliFILM", in order to give the impression that it's still related to the old music magazine, but is focussed on films rather than music, and is made by the same people who made Amplifier. It's not the greatest idea in the world, but it means it looks more like a film magazine than one for music that was paid to advertise a film they didn't particularly like or whatever.