The document summarizes and compares different horror and film magazines. It discusses the covers of "Scream" and "Horror" magazines, noting their use of villain images, multiple smaller pictures, and colors like red, black and green. It criticizes them for looking too busy and unprofessional. "Empire" magazine is presented as more clean cut and professional with a consistent font and focus on the main protagonist.
2. While looking for horror magazines I came across
the magazine ‘Scream’. It commonly features a
range of different pictures on the cover alongside
one bigger main image. The main colours used are
white, red, black, yellow and green. The black and
the red are symbolic of death, darkness, blood and
danger while the green is reds complimentary
colour making both of them stand out more. The
yellow also works well with the red and stands out
making the magazine more eye-catching.
The larger image in both of the magazines on the
left shows the villains in each of the films showing
which film is being specially featured in the edition.
The smaller pictures are of other films, actors and
directors that are featured in the magazine.
Personally I am not a fan of this style of magazine as
it looks too busy and overcrowded giving it an
unprofessional look. This is especially due to the use
of listing a lot of features and using too many
images.
Scream magazine
3. Another horror film magazine that I found was
‘Horror’ magazine. Similarly to ‘Scream’
magazine, it also features villains on the cover
of it. It has other small pictures too but
nothing as big as on the previous magazine
and the majority of this is at the top and not
as overpowering. The main colours used
across these two examples are black, blue, red
white and yellow. The black shows darkness
while the red is symbolic of danger and blood
which are two common features of a horror
film.
There are three main texts used across the
cover. The main fault that I have with these
magazines are that the mastheads are in
different fonts making them not link as well as
they should.
Horror magazine
4. As I was not the biggest fan of the horror specific magazines I also looked at other more general
film magazines such as ‘Empire’. We chose to look at empire because of its well known brand and
clean cut professional appearance. From looking at all of the covers above the main feature on
each poster is the films main protagonist. They are easily linked through the mast head and easy
to decipher from other magazines. The empire title is traditionally red which works with the
themes of our film as it is symbolic of danger while we might also choose to have a dark
background making it seem more dangerous similar to the Star Wars cover seen above.
