Photos for Magazine Cover

Here are the pictures that I took for my magazine cover. I took pictures of both of my main characters in front of a clear white background so that the images were easier to edit.

This first picture shows the protagonist with her fists up as though she is fighting. I thought this would be fitting as my film centres on her defeating and fighting off the evil antagonist, as seen in my trailer.

 This image shows a more sinister pose, as the character has her head down but is looking up at the audience which is conventional of an antagonist in a horror film. This pose makes the character look suspicious and having eye contact with the audience is not a normal convention, so it unsettles the audience which is the effect I want it to have.

However, in this image my actress is smiling slightly so I didn't use this image.

This is the image that I chose as I feel it had the most effective pose and unlike the image above her face looks more straight, giving her a more creepy look.

This pose was intended to show that this character is the intelligent helper for the main protagonist. The way she is biting her glasses and staring off into the distance makes it seem as though she is in deep thought. Also she is holding books which the audience would assume to be her research as seen from in the trailer.

However I don;t think that this image would work well for my cover either as it does not fit in that well with the genre as the character is innocent and does not look as though she is out of a horror film.

I liked this image as it shows the innocence of the character. Having her hands crossed on her chest shows that she is remaining contained within herself and may not have the confidence of the main protagonist. However I decided not to use this image as I didn't think that the pose fit very well for the cover of a horror edition of a magazine.

This pose was a good idea but didn't work out as I had planned. Having the hand in front of her face was meant to make her look as though she was holding up a hand to say stop, connoting her stopping the evil character from the film, however the way she is holding her hand makes it look more as though she is hiding from something, which is not what I want to connote to my audience, and so I did not use this image.  

This is my second favourite shot as I think that the pose is typical of the horror genre, as though the character is is hiding from something. However when I uploaded the image to the computer I noticed that the characters hand is in focus and not her body, which is what I wanted. This would look unappealing if it was used for my magazine cover as making it bigger would make the focus look more noticeable, and it would look sloppy and unprofessional, so unfortunately I can't use this image.