Please follow the link below that will take you to an Adobe Spark page that I have made where I explain about production and distribution institutions and how important they are.
https://spark.adobe.com/page/ssS4UsdzloZwq/
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Evaluation
In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?
Above is a collection of Sight and Sound covers and its clear that our magazine cover conforms not only to the conventions of magazines but also to the conventions of the specific genre of serious, independent film magazines such as Sight and Sound. To begin with, we have included the same masthead, barcode and date styles as the Sight and Sound publication. In addition to this we have also included the white border to our cover to ensure that it follows the Sight and Sound conventions and is therefore easily recognisable. We recognised that the majority of Sight and Sound covers centre around the directors of films, however, there are times where actors take the lime light, as seen with the Kristen Stewart and Leo DiCaprio (The Revenant), and as the theme of the interview was the main actor of our film, ‘BLACKOUT’, speaking out we felt that it would be appropriate to make the actor and more specifically the theme of the interview as the main story of the magazine. In terms of how are magazine cover conforms stylistically to the conventions of this style of publication we have tried to include aspects from all these covers.
How did you use media technologies in the construction and research, planning and evaluation stages?
How did you use media technologies in the construction and research, planning and evaluation stages?
As a group, we successfully created a professional looking magazine cover within Photoshop as part of our ancillary tasks to our trailer. In this post, I will be discussing the features of the software that we used to produce the poster and how we created the final draft of our magazine cover. 
First we opened a Photoshop document and placed our main image in the centre of the frame whilst leaving a white border as this is a typical convention of the Sight and Sound template.
Next we need to desaturate the image, to do this we went down to adjustment layer, select hue and saturation and adjusted the settings to desaturate the image.
After this we had to download the relevant PNG files for the Sight and Sound template, namely the main title, the BFI logo, the date of the issue and the price.
We then inserted these PNGs into the main image in the appropriate position. 
We then had to start establishing who the person in the photo is and so we wrote “Sean Welsh” in large Lazer84 font.
We then wrote the same title and in the same font behind it but in white in order to make the title stand out.
Next we made it conform even more to the Sight and Sound template by having ‘Plus’ written in red and having a number of articles relating to recently released and upcoming films.
We then opened a new Photoshop document with the original image and changed the hue and the image was the same shade of purple as the main title.
We then held the quick selection tool and selected the magic wand tool.
We then opened a new Photoshop document with the original image and changed the hue and the image was the same shade of purple as the main title.We then held the quick selection tool and selected the magic wand tool.
We then opened a new Photoshop document with the original image and changed the hue and the image was the same shade of purple as the main title.We then held the quick selection tool and selected the magic wand tool.
We then used this tool to select the individual letters of ‘HELP’.
We then transferred all of the individual letters to the magazine cover and placed them all in the right place.
Following these steps enabled us to create this magazine cover.
Third draft of Sight and Sound magazine cover
Progression of film poster
Conventions of our trailer
Below is a link to a Adobe Spark video where I talk about the conventions of our film trailer for our original film ‘BLACKOUT’.
How we used Premiere
Analysis of our magazine cover
Below is an analysis of our magazine cover, which explores how we conformed to the conventions of the magazine genre and specifically Sight and Sound.
Production and distribution institutions
Please follow the link below that will take you to an Adobe Spark page that I have made where I explain about production and distribution institutions and how important they are.
https://spark.adobe.com/page/ssS4UsdzloZwq/
Progress of magazine cover
During the making of our we’ve made a number of changes to our magazine cover. To begin with we decided that we’d have our magazine cover be of the actress who plays the femme fatale in our film, ‘BLACKOUT’, and that we’d have the subject of the interview being feminism and women in the industry. We’d make sure that this was clear by having her wear a feminist shirt and having the word ‘feminist’ being the only coloured aspect of the image. In addition to this we had
