Construction of Film Poster and Film Magazine

Film Magazine Front Cover

This is my final fully constructed Film Magazine Cover. I have used Adobe Photoshop CS4 to construct the cover. Below are my following stages and tools I have used to create my front cover. 

Firstly I uploaded the image to Adobe Photoshop CS4.

I then used the text tool to insert my masthead 'POPCORN' and film title 'TOM' and, the move tool to place them where appropriate. 

I again used to the text tool to insert the banners, 'EXCLUSIVE', 'WE VENTURE BEYOND THE BOUNDARIES OF THE BIG SCREEN' and 'THE MOST REFRESHING ORIGINAL BRITISH DEBUT IN YEARS'.

I again used the text tool to insert my sell lines on the left.

I again used the text tool to insert the puff and the text inside the starred circle. To create the '+' on the puff I used the pen tool and on the first layer I drew a horizontal line, I then duplicated that layer and rotated it 90 degrees. I then moved the vertical layer over the horizontal layer, checked the accuracy then merged the two layers. 

For the final magazine cover I have inserted the barcode and the date, issue number and price using the text tool.

To create the stars;

I drew a circle on Adobe Illustrator and put lines at 45 degree intervals then created a star with the shape tool. I then duplicated the stars and placed them at 45 degree positions around the circle and ended up with this:

Film Poster

This is my first fully constructed Film Poster. I have used Adobe Photoshop CS4 to construct the page. Below are my following stages and tools I have used to create my front cover. 

Firstly I uploaded the image to Adobe Photoshop CS4.

I inserted the text, title of film, credits and name of actors/director using the text tool. I created the text with the red border in Adobe Illustrator. To get the red outline I used the stroke tool, I then dragged the text into Photoshop.

On this screenshot I inserted the 'Octo Films' logo and the 15 certificate logo. I also inserted the critic comments and stars to the poster.

To create the stars I used the shape tool in Adobe Illustrator, I then duplicated the first star 3 times and spaced them out appropriately.

On this screenshot I have added the masthead/skyline using the text tool. This was intially going to be my final magazine cover, however I thought it needed something more punchy so I created this:

To gain this effect for my final film poster, I created a new layer and using the paint bucket dropped in a black fill, I then changed the opacity to 65% so you could see some of the sheet behind. Using the magic wand tool I cropped out an aproximate offset of the main characters shape, I then deleted this and applied an outer glow from the effects palette.