I used the burn tool too darken the sky and the landscape and the dodge tool to highlight all the characters on the cover. I researched some other souvenir magazines ( some for reality tv such as The X Factor) and found that a lot of them have "stickers" that say "first look" and "exclusive" on them so I added one too to intrigue an audience into buying it. The sticker and the triangle in the corner were both originally bright colours but I darkened them to go with the "thriller" genre of the show. As this is a new show I set the price low but it is more expensive than weekly magazines. I have also included a bar-code and both our logo for Silver Linings Productions (the company) and E4 (the channel it will air on) as they are the two institutions involved. The name of the show "After Dark" is rising upwards like the word "after" denotes and the slogan "What happens when the lights go out?" is used so an audience can recognize After Dark when they hear or see it. It can be seen as both a scary slogan as darkness connotes fear, and a comedic slogan as it sounds like a sexual innuendo. This shows both sides of the "comedy-thriller" genre.
Sanny, I really like this cover. You have given a good rationale for all the decisions you have made regarding the cover. There are also some good opportunities to discuss the representations of your characters in the show. This can be done in your evaluation. Well done though, very carefully edited and well constructed
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