Induction: Re-Creation Of A Movie Magazine Front Cover

This is my first piece of work in AS Media. I had to re-create this 'Empire' front cover (on the left) promoting Ocean's Twelve. I struggled with fitting all the words on to the page and also making the writing go behind the characters head as it did in the original. I fount it rather easy to be able to put some of the writing in the right positions but struggled to get it to the write shape, sizes and fonts. I did not add a drop shadow to the 'Oceans Twelve' font and didn't know how to add the shape where it said 'Amazing start to 2005.' Also i did not add the top line of the magazine and the shape in the top right hand corner. This is the first time i have used photoshop in a couple of years, and I need alot more work on photoshop to become more confident in the software and excel in using it at A2 Level.