Creating my Ancillary

Flatplan:
Before creating my Magazine cover, I made a Flatplan which allowed me to plan out where I wanted my images, features, masthead etc. I chose an existing tv magazine and used the layout as a plan for my own magazine. Making a flatplan made it much easier for me to be able to get the correct photo that would be used on my front cover.

Photoshoot:

I used the green screen to get my images for my main front cover photo. I placed the two main characters (Paul and Mercedes) in front of the screen and used two circle, mirrored reflectors in order to reflect light onto the stars faces. During the shoot, I continually checked over my photos to make sure they were correctly positioned and they were in focus. For my smaller 'feature' photos i used two of google images and the other was taken in the green screen and then placed onto another background.

Photoshop:

I edited my pictures using ‘Adobe Photoshop.' This was to get rid of the background in the main photo and also to airbrush the characters, like on a real tv magazine. I also used photoshop for my small, feature photo as the image taken was placed onto a separate background.

Extras:

Behind my charcters on the main image, I added in a blue/grey gradient to give the image more depth and meaning after I had cut out the existing background. I took the inspiration from my flatplan and ‘Total, TVguide’ as this is the genre of magazine that I was going for.