My Magazine cover

I have decided to construct a Sight and Sound magazine front cover for my film rather than a empire magazine. My main reasons were that as my film is an independent film it is more appropriate that I would use Sight and Sound as they focus and analyze in-depth film rather than big blockbuster. I chose to create a black background as it connoted darkness and’ fear of the unknown’, adhering to the typical conventions associated with horror. The main image I used was of the masked villain holding a knife with blood-dripping. This is felt illustrated to readers that the film would include gore and will be horrific. The blood- dripping blended in the heading ‘FRIGHT SPECIAL’, almost like the masked villain was carving the title out with the blade. The position of the villain against the black background creates an image in the reader’s head that he came out from the darkness and the only visible feature is the bloody knife and of course the skull mask. The subheading used enticed horror readers as it says ‘With the imminent release of vertigo’s Vengeance we delve into the past horror successes over the last 100 years. I particularly wrote this to drag horror fans to buy the magazine as it will include a treat for them too such as extra analysis on successful films over the last century. On the bottom right-hand corner of the magazine it shows to readers what will be included in the magazine. The colour used was green to make sure readers could see exactly what they will be getting inside, whilst observing this particular magazine.

Over all the magazine cover that I created is quite simple but effective. It does not bombard readers with extravagent colours, but rather creates a sense of mystery due to the lack of visible features.