Research and Planning - Make up tips

I recently found a website/blog that gives some really helpful tips for creating a zombie look with make-up and for creating fake blood. I will use this to improve my mise-en-scene.

http://thevaliens.com/how-to-with-the-valiens/adventure/zombie-makeup/

Research and Planning - Professional Feedback

After posting the final draft of my film magazine on Facebook, I was lucky enough to have one of my parents' friends give me some feedback. Andrew Hedley is the editor and cover creator of 'Triumph Stag Enthusiasts' car magazine and so he knows what he is talking about regarding magazine covers! As you can see below, he has given me some helpful tips!

Research and Planning - Magazine Feedback

Facebook feedback for my finished magazine mock up:

I am very pleased with the positive feedback I have received both from this draft and previous drafts and the only thing people seem to be unsure about is my masthead font. I think I'm going to recreate this draft on Photoshop and have a mess around with different masthead fonts to see if I can improve the look of my magazine.

Originally I was aiming for a 1920s Cinema Box Office style font for my Masthead, as I thought it would look distinctly film related and would fit nicely with an old style film strip behind it. However, I'm now debating if it is suitable for my film magazine, as I've had some negative feedback about it and I do suppose it is not the typical font you would find on the masthead of a widely sold, mass market, major film magazine like EMPIRE or Total Film.

Research and Planning - Magazine Mock Up Complete

This my completed mock up/draft of my film magazine. This was painstakingly created on a 2003 version of Microsoft PowerPoint, in preparation for creating my final film magazine on Adobe PhotoShop.

The grey rectangle in the middle represents where a photograph is going to be placed. The red outline of a rectangle in the bottom left corner represents where another photograph is going to be placed.

My masthead font is: AR BONNIE - size 126
My tagline font is: Tw Cen MT Condensed (in Bold Capitals) - size 21
My coverline headings font is: Tw Cen MT Condensed - size 32
My coverline body font is: Tw Cen MT Condensed - 22
My issue information font is: Tw Cen MT Condensed - 22
My 'exclusive' font is: Tw Cen MT Condensed (Capitals, 1 space between each letter) - size 22
My Far Beyond Obsession font is: Baskerville Old Face (in Bold Capitals) - size 36 and 26
My TRANSFIXED font is: Baskerville Old Face (in Bold Capitals) - size 70
My exclusive tagline 'The new film...' font is: Tw Cen MT Condensed (in Capitals) - size 23
My banner font is: Tw Cen MT Condensed (in Capitals) - size 28

Research and Planning - 2013 Movies

My magazine issue is going to be for April, so I researched what films are going to be released in April 2013, so I can include them on my cover - ensuring all my coverlines and stories are relevant to the date the issue would be released.

Research and Planning - Camcorder Settings

Yesterday I had a play around with the camcorder before I had to give it to my previous media partner, as we had agreed to share the equipment as there wasn't enough for everyone in the media class.

I found that to get the eeriest setting for my filming I had to lower the exposure to 8 and add the Tungsten light filter. Now I have found this out I know exactly what settings I am going to use for when I conduct my final filming.

Research and Planning - Magazine Feedback

Facebook feedback from my magazine mock up so far.