Creating my own film magazine cover

I made my film magazine cover based on the film I made for my AS Level coursework - 'just turned eighteen'. I used what I made when I copied the 'Jupiter Ascending' cover as a template, but changed the text, colours and images to match the teen angst genre. To overcome the fact that the big film magazines tend to focus on action films rather than teen films, I made sure that the images I included were from other "chick flicks" so that 'just turned eighteen' didn't look out of place. I included action/adventure film titles around the main image so that the target audience of men would still want to purchase the magazine, regardless of if the issue was aimed more at females.

One of the problems that I faced was making this magazine cover look different form the last one that I created. I searched for images of past 'Total Film' covers and decided to copy the tilted bar across the middle of the cover that shows images of upcoming films. I think that it works well with the cover because it is more eye-catching and allowed me to add more underneath - as on my past cover, I had to make the font smaller so that it would all fit in.

Initially, I wanted to put Madison and Ethan on the cover to mimic the main characters on the 'Jupiter Ascending' cover but I felt that it made the cover look too cluttered and took attention away from the main character. Another problem that I faced was the fact that the fact that the picture of Madison wasn't very good quality, and so I had to sharpen and re-colour the image so that it fit with the professional style of the rest of the cover - which took longer than it should have due to my limited Photoshop abilities.