Research: Magazine Covers

FILM MAGAZINE FRONT COVER ANALYSIS 1

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FILM MAGAZINE COVER ANALYSIS 2

FILM MAGAZINE FRONT COVER
ANALYSIS 3

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 Horror Magazine Special
EMPIRE MAGAZINE 

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Although this is not a specific Horror Magazine cover (above), I chose this cover because it includes an iconic horror character in which audiences can identify and conveys some of the conventions of the Horror genre. Most Horror magazine covers tend to look quite amateur, for example the 'Scream' magazine (right), their front cover includes a central image of a monster, some may perceived that using a typical horror 'monster' as the central image might look false and obviously not real. The mast head's font is ideal to the genre as it has blood dripping down from it but also it looks too simple thus it does not appeal to the audience and is not as 'eye-grabbing' as the 'Empire' magazine cover.

Another example is the magazine cover of 'HorrorHound'. The central image is of infamous horror antagonist from the film Friday the 13th, Jason. The central image is not a photograph but an artistic rendering of the antagonist, this gives the magazine cover a comical and artistic appearance rather than a scary and more horrific style. This cover follows the left-side third rule and includes miniature photos of the above the cover lines, this gives the reader a more visual in-take rather than reading a lot of information from the cover. The colour scheme is quite simple and the use of red is used to connote blood which reinforces the Horror genre. As an audience/reader myself, if I saw this magazine cover on a stand from a far, at first impression I would not have thought that this magazine is specifically a horror film magazine.