Our plan today is to complete our magazine front cover. Now that we've looked at our first draft (from last week's lesson) with fresh eyes, we've decided that we need to make some changes.
We began by using a combination of Photoshop and inDesign to cut around the character to place on top of the masthead via a new layer. We also approached it from another angle, using the magnetic lasso tool on Photoshop to cut away part of the text. We went on to print a couple of variations at different stages of the process to see if the effect was authentic.
The next step was to alter the main tagline. We changed the angle and darkened the colour slightly, in a similar fashion to the Kick-Ass edition we looked at previously. We kept the outline to black so it stood out against the dark background and began to add in extra information such as the date and price.
We then experimented with various fonts to convey horror, as we decided to create a 'Horror Season Special' issue. We downloaded a variety of typical horror fonts from dafont.com. After using each font for the 'Horror Season Special' tagline we went with 'Double Feature', a clique horror font that takes the harshness away from the rest of the cover. It also immediately conveys the theme of horror as it is a stereotypical horror font.
Taking inspiration again from the Kick-Ass issue we then created a 'splatter' shape out of a standard circle and a number of full stops and commas written in the horror fonts we had downloaded. This acted as a visual text box which also linked strongly to our horror theme.
At the end of the lesson, this was our development:
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