Recreating Empire magazine (Loki)

This purpose of this activity was to recreate a magazine cover, in this case the Empire magazine. Its purpose was to familiarize ourselves with using Photoshop and so our task was to recreate the original Loki-Empire magazine using Photoshop. It also serves to help us get an idea of the various techniques magazines use to attract audiences and helps us to understand ourselves what is needed in an appealing magazine.   

The magazine on top is the remake I personally did whilst attempting to understand how to edit images and words on Photoshop and helped me improve my skills in editing.

I had changed the image of Loki's stance because I had to find a different image stance of him instead of using the original stance and so decided to using him when he was sitting down, the text was well suited with the image due to there being colours in the background which helped the colours of the words be seen. It was also a tough task as it was my first ever task of editing a magazine cover and trying out new techniques to see what caused what and how it did it. The image I used also still stamped attention from the audience as he has a sinister grin on him whilst there is destruction in the background. All in all, I believe I did a decent job of recreating the original poster and although there is evidently a gap between my recreation and the original, I believe it was a good try for my first time. 

 

The connotations of this magazine is that the destruction and character in the back suggests that it is aimed for those who are interested in films or the action genre. Another conotation of this is that by having the image of loki it may mean that there are interviews about the film or cast about what the film is about. A convention of this is that it has its coverlines on the sides and which is genreally seen in all magazines and. The effect of this is that it makes it more easier for the target audience to see the main image of the magzine as well as the fact that because the coverlines are in black and white, this will maker it easier to see the differences between coverlines (i.e. when a coverline starts and ends or the key selling points for example someones name may be in a different colour compared to the rest of the coverline). The hyperdermic needle theory may be that the media issue is suggesting the target audience should go and watch the film. The consumer may then want to go watch the film due to the underlying message (hypodermic needle theory) that the media product is giving of.