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Working Title/Warp Film Research

Working Title Are a British Film Production Company

Media Interests

Film: Step Brothers, The Longest Yard, American Pie, Taken, Crank, Snatch, Avatar
TV: Skins, The Inbetweeners, Family Guy, South Park, Lost, House
Music: Kid Cudi, Travie McCoy, The King Blues, The Streets, Biffy Clyro, Bar 9, Bob Marley, Chris Brown, Drake, Eminem, The XX, MGMT,
Games: Gears of War, Call of Duty, Fifa

Preliminary Work: Magazine Cover & Contents

In class, we first had to create on paper a copy of a design for our magazines, which we were to later use to assist with the creation of our Photoshop-Based magazine. I first thought of a genre to base my design on. I chose music as I thought this would appeal to many college students, aswell as the fact there is many existing magazines of this genre for inspiration. Here is a copy of my initial design:

*Scanned image of hand drawn design*

I then came to creating my magazine cover on photoshop. My first step was to take, and import an image of a classmate. I chose to take my image of James, with a simple mid-shot against a plain background. My reasons for this were the fact that the brief stated it must be a student (and a mid shot), and also that it would be easier to 'cut' around the image and then use it as a layer.

Here you see my original image (left), and my image after cutting it with both the magnetic lasso and magic wand tools, and adjusting the contrast/brightness and saturation etc. I also changed the background to a pale grey, as this is a neutral colour, which doesn't clash - meaning I can use a range of colours for the rest of my elements I add.

My next step was to add a masthead. I first had to decide on a font to use. My original inspiration for this was 'Complex' magazine, however, after browsing 'dafont' for a style to use, I found 'Bomb Font'. This appealed to me as it was similar to the style used by artist 'Kaws' in his work, so I decided to use this. I imported the text 'LC Music' and then edited it, by adding shadows, colour overlays, and lighting effects until I got a final product I was happy with.

I then carried on this process similarly throughout, importing elements and then customising them to my taste. I decided to follow magazine conventions with many of the elements, such as a central masthead at the top, barcode in the bottom right, and so on. I chose to do this, as I feel it gives the magazine credability - as it has features similar to existing, successful magazines.

The Man - Representation

My first impression of this man was the possibility that he was homeless, a tramp. This is mainly because of elements of his appearance and behaviour that are often associated with homeless people. For example, his patchwork trousers indicate lack of wealth - as they may have been worn and torn, and he is unable to replace them. Another indication is the winter hat, worn low - suggesting he needs protection from the cold as he is exposed to it all the time whilst living on the streets.
However, if you look closer, he has high quality work shoes (showing that he is possibly not un-employed, and also has enough money to spend on his appearance). Also, instead of the turned up trousers being functional, they could be seen as a fashion statement, as he has precisely turned them up in a way it appears he takes pride in. The fact he is standing in such a confident, up-right position ties in with this, as it shows he is proud of either his appearance or who he is.