Magazine Cover Development

We decided to design our magazine cover based on the two main characters. This is done so that the characters relate straight to the film. This is very common within real films. Despite us using a different image for our poster we wanted to show the main characters for one of our print work. As well we decided to challenge the forms and conventions of a thriller by using women instead of men for the main, dominant detective roles and we wanted to show this in our magazine cover.
We chose to position the two main characters in the centre of the image with buildings in the background to show the urban evironment. The two main characters were holding guns pointing towards the camer, as the image taken from a low angle shot. This shows dominance and indepence of the two main characters. We aso feel the positioning and type of shot fits well within the thriller genre.

We started developing our magazine cover by firstly turing the whole image black and white then applying hue/saturation to add shading and contrast in certain areas. After, in the background we applied a deep red to the buildings. We wanted to stick to and apply our colour theme of red, black and white/grey to both our print works. It was important for us to form a connection between both our poster and magazine cover so that it can relate to the film and connect all three pieces within our project.

Below is our final magazine cover. we chose the magazine company "Empire" as we feel this fits in well with our style that travels throughout our project.