When I took pictures for my film poster, I also carried out a photoshoot for the magazine cover against a white wall that was located in the art gallery we filmed in. I took multiple images, but in some Nicole had posed in a way that wouldn't be appropriate for a magazine cover due to the tone I wanted to portray; the unusable images we of Nicole looking very sinister, and as the feature article is an interview, I felt I should represent her as a person rather than the character she played. I began the image creation by opening the picture up in Adobe Photoshop CC 2015. I created a second background layer, and used the quick selection tool to remove the white background from the image; once this was done I zoomed in very closely to the image and used the eraser tool with 100% opacity to remove any remanence of the white background by erasing the colour pixel by pixel.
Once this was done, I made the decision to have the magazine background a grey colour because this would create synergystic links with the title slates that are in the film trailer, and the audience would be able to associate the two products. I tried using a plain grey background, but I didn't feel that this provided depth in the image to make it realistic, so I attempted to use the gradient tool and have the grey move from light to dark in a vertical sequence. This worked well and created the effect that I wanted.
Once this was completed, I altered the brightness, contrast and colour saturation of the image of Nicole; this is because the image was taken with too much exposure and so the colour of her skin had become unnatural. Once this had been altered, the image was more in sync with the background, and the image looked more genuine and realistic. After this was done, I exported the file and saved the image a JPEG, in order to open it correctly in Indesign.
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