Existing magazine Covers

Here are existing film magazines in which have given me ideas on how to compose my horror magazine. Here I have an example of a horror magazine and a normal magazine cover. In the horror cover closeups have been used rather than a longer shot as this creates the audience to identify with the character and their expressions.  Blood and scars have also been used to highlight the sort and genre of magazine, seperating it from other magazines. Colours such as red are most commanly used and can be identified with horror. The text also used in horror magazines are less basic and more stylized such as being cracked and uneven connoting unbalance as if somthing is wrong.

Here I have colected two horror movie posters in which instantly scream to the audience they are part of the horror genre. The majority of movie posters in the horror genre have used very dull colour schemes and almosty always has incourporated the colour black into their designs to create an edge and build suspence. Ive noticed that there is a main focal point in which grabs the audiences attention instantly, instead of creating confusion with numerous amounts of images trying to get the plot across.  The simpler the poster the more mystery to the film and there for persuading the audience to want to know more. Both posters also contain a catch phrase that links all their marketing products together , as this line would also be shown in the teaser trailer, posters and all other promotional products.  From this research on existing products I can also see a simple text has been used in which is the same font as in their trailer, therefore when audiences see this font it will be iconic to the film.