media coursework

For assignment 1 i was asked to compare two comic book front covers, design a character and sidekick and design a comic book front cover. To create my superhero and sidekick i used the marvel website and to create my front cover i used a programme called comic life. These were very helpful.

My front cover is a very typical comic book design because after doing my research i found that they layout and format i have chosen are the best sellers for consumers.I also used the horror convention when creating my comic book with a lot of different shades of black to show the story of a shadow. Also, the colour black helps keep the audience interested when they are surrounded by other colours. I think my comic book front cover represents different social groups of my target audience. The age 14--25 is an appropriate target audience for the story line i have chosen.My comic book is also aimed at boys which is stereotypical but i found that during my research most boys buy darker, gorier comic books so this helped me pick the colours for my horror comic book front cover. My comic book also represents the social group of people who like dark, gothic, horror comics. I have achieved this through the use of dark colours.By using the image of a superhero standing tall on the front of the page, this brings in the serious feel to horror. This can then be seen as the person in the image not wanting to mess about, linking to the horror theme again.I researched lots of gothic comic books before so i had a very good knowledge of what a typical horror comic book front cover looked like. In this image i decided to make the moon brighter to show the amount of light against the dark colours. Also, this made the comic book front cover stand out more to my audience. Using photoshop i also cut around the circle to there was no black to make the moon be more clear to the audience against the dark background.

Through the process of constructing my product i have