Magazine front cover

We decided to make the magazine cover  the complete opposite of the movie poster as we wanted to experiment with different styles and not just stick to a horror style only. Also, our target audience and most people in general like to read real life interviews/stories so we decided to use a normal image of the main character of the film for the front page to give a sense of reality, instead of using an image from one of the movie scenes. We used photoshop to cut around the main characters photo so that we could later on add our choice of background around it. We chose to use this effect to make it look like an actual real magazine cover, as on most magazine covers you can tell that the main image has been cut from it’s original background. We chose colours such as red, black and white because the red symbolizes gore and blood and the black also links in with the element of horror and creates a sense of mystery. We used white for certain parts of the magazine to enable some of the text to stand out from the more darker shades such as black and grey. We made the font on the magazine cover very large and bold so that it makes more of an impact and is eye-catching. We used sub headings such as “MASSIVE PREVIEW SPECIAL” and “45 New Movies you Need to See” because its persuasive and will make people want to read the magazine and that’s the whole aim of a magazine cover.