The Making of the Magazine Cover

This is my magazine cover, this is nearly the final edit, however I still need to move the position of the date and the price because this is not in a conventional place on this draft because I wanted to try something new but in this case it did not look effective and it is not a place that the audience would normally look for the price and the date. I also need to make the doll image more scary to make it obviously horror instead of the comical look it has now, this image needs to be darker and have some effects on it to make it have a really dark look. I need to fill up the empty space on top of the banner by making the main image bigger because it would look more filled out and therefore like a professional magazine.  But overall I think that my magazine is almost finished and I am quite happy with the progress of creating it so far.

I tried to change the picture to red to match the rest of the magazine and see if this would look better however this looks a bit too pink and therefore does not give the magazine the look I wnat it to have.

I added this blue filter and this broken glass effect around the doll image however I do not think this looks dark enough and it still has a bit of a comical look to it

I have been experimenting with the different pictures and I have chosen to use a new doll image altogether because I feel that the image I was using before was more comical becasue the eyes were half open and half closed. I have been researching different scary doll images on the internet and I found a picture that I took some ideas from for my doll image such as the dark rings around the eyes and the dirty look that gives the doll its horror look and I think that this images goes a lot better with the whole look of my magazine than the original one I was going to use. I still need to add the date and price and make the kicker next to the main image slightly bigger to make the layout of the magazine look better.

This is nearly my final magazine cover; as you can see I have changed the image of the doll, the size of the main image, the size of the kicker on the right hand side of the main image, the positioning of the date and the price. However I do not think that the positioning of the the price looks good because it is too big and is in an unconventional place, therefore this is the final thing that I will be changing. The magazine cover is in a much better quality magazine cover because I was saving it in JPEG format before however I realised that saving it in format makes the quality much better.