Image for Magazine Cover

This was the image I was initially going to use for my magazine cover however, as I began to edit the image in Photoshop I realised that this image was unsuitable for the magazine for a number of reasons. Firstly, the top of the model's head has been cut off which was due to my positioning of the camera, this meant that I would have to cover this with a large piece of text on the magazine, however there was a risk of the top of the head still showing, which I did not want to take. Another issue with this image was the wardrobe of the model. I plan to keep a sense of continuity throughout the trailer and ancillary tasks which is why I cannot use this image as the model is not wearing the same outfit as she does in the trailer. This may confuse the viewers of both the magazine and trailer as they may not make a connection between the two pieces, A final reason why I did not use this image is because it is missing a key piece of iconography. I had planned to have the model holding a knife, which is why her hands are positioned the way they are, however due to health and safety I could not bring a knife to the place where the image was being taken, so I had planned to add a knife in to the correct position in the editing process. However, I found the final image (right) to lack a sense of realism and to me, the image seemed obviously and poorly edited.



I decided that the best option was to do a re-shoot for my magazine front cover image. I feel that this image is much more successful and definitely usable compared to the other image. There are to key improvments to this image which now make it appropirate to use on on my magazine. The first is the wardrobe of the model which now matches what her character wears in the trailer and therefore achieves the sense of continuty I wanted to achieve. The other key improvement is the fact that the knife, the key iconography, is now featured in the image and not added in post-production. The fact that the image was taken featuring the knife means that it achieves both realism and will now conform to the conventions of other magazine cover images,