Magazine Preperations

I had the design and template of my magazine in order however the most influencial part of any magazine cover was missing, the dominant picture promoting a film. In my case it was a multi-brand magazine promoting a horror-based film in Ready Or Not.
So I thought what did I want on the front cover of my magazine after anaylsing both a student magazine and a professional magazine in Batman The Dark Knight.
I decided the picture had to be luring and instead of the male character being on the cover like in the poster, I wanted to have the female character on the front cover of the magazine. I felt this added diverse and variety to my ancillary tasks rather than just using the same image or near enough the same image on both poster and magazine covers.
So to set up the shot I wanted to create I had to prepare my female character and attempt to get her to look the same as she did in the film, which proved to be quite difficult with the makeup. Below are some of the shots I took of my female character preparing to shoot for the magazine cover.

After all the makeup was put on and the costumes were too I decided to use to seperate locations to shoot. One was in a room where a plain white wall could be used as an equivilent as a backdrop and was conveniently located by a window so by using curtains I was able to ajdust the lighting.
Below was location 1 of the photoshooting

Location 2 was used also in the filming process unlike with location 1. Location 1 is the basement or cellar area which is really suited to a scary movie location, as its a rundown, rusty old area. The Cellar/Basements problem was that it may not be ideal as a backdrop suitable for use in a magazine, this meant that my immeadiate preferal was pictures taken from location 1. Location 2 (The Basement/Cellar) is shown below).

After taking the pictures I needed to decide which ones were good and which ones needed to be discarded and then make a final decision on the pciture I wanted to be on my magazine cover.

Below are some of the shots that I decided against:

The image below for bluriness.

And this one for not focusing enough on the actress and too much on the camera in the shot.

In the end I decided on of the two images below for my magazine beacuse the shots both brings a sense of power and I feel that my character here really captures the mood I was trying to create, a tensious, powerful mood.