Creating the Magazine cover

First we started creating a magazine cover everyone else is doing. A total film magazine cover with a realistic whole body shot of our main characters. Than we realized that our kind of art house film would not be on a film magazine cover, which is based on Hollywood blockbusters.

This is why we decided to use one our our really strong close up photo as a main image on the magazine cover of little white lies, which is an independent magazine focusing on quirky, art house films. We used Photoshop filters to create a not realistic high contrast cartoon style picture. We choose the colour brown because we often used sepia in our film, and it would be something to connect the poster with the film. We used a nicely contrasting blue background, we overlaid the Spanish flag's logo in the background to add something that relates to Spanish but it didn’t work well.

After we changed the background colour to something warmer to suggest a romantic story, and we got the sunrise effect idea from other covers of Little White Lies. Than the complementary colours of green titles were added, but it just still was not right and also the sunrise effect didn’t fit with our story.

This one is the final magazine cover. The background is purple which is between the warm reddish and contrasting blue. There is a part of graffiti in the background to relate to our shots in the trailer. The main picture colour is changed to black to emphasize it and give it more characteristic, so the background doesn’t take off the eyes of the actors. The title 'The Desire Issue' matches the colour of the background and has a quite quirky font. The smaller titles are white so they stand out and they are easy to read. I think we did a good, developed job on this magazine cover and it fits in with the style of 'Little White Lies'. Maybe the background should be paler and a little gentler, but we tried playing around with different colours, intensity and saturation, but this looked the best.