The magazine follows the conventions of most horror trailer magazines how ever I have broken a few conventions to make the magazine unique and separate it from competition.
The title of the magazine is located at the top of the page in the middle, this is a convention of all magazines with the exception of music magazine Q who locate their title on the top left of the magazine. The title is very large in comparison to the other subheadings this is to make it stand out and dominate the page.
Horror magazines generally have san serif fonts with sharp edges. I have used a gothic font which suits the genre of the magazine, the sharp edges represent knives and other sharp objects that are used in horror films.
The title is red for two reasons. First of all the colour red portrays blood and violence and they are features you will often see in the horror genre. I made the red very dark so it complimented the dark background in order to create tension and suspense.
Secondly the colour red was used to match the colour scheme.For the magazine we used a very simple colours,red and white.The white stands out amongst the dark back ground and makes the most important subheadings on the page stand out. To make sure the white subheadings fitted the colour scheme I put a red stroke around the text. The red stroke gives the text a 3D affect and makes it seem as if it is coming out of the page.
I used a wide range of fonts for the magazine cover, this is a convention used by all magazines as the different fonts represent a different section to the magazine or story. I used the font liquid crystal for one of the subheadings.The font is that of are magazine cover and teaser trailer and is the font we have used to represent our film. As the film focuses around time, the liquid crystal font is similar to that of a digital clock.
I have followed a convention by incorporating the films font and title onto the magazine cover. When a film is the main focus of the magazine they tend to use the films font when displaying it on the magazine. This is an example of synergy,which is used by every magazine in order to help promote a film.
The subheading 3:15 is the largest subheading on the page it is the largest to show it is the main focus of the magazine which is a convention of all horror magazines.
At the bottom of the page I created a montage of clips into a visual picture show reel, they show behind the scene footage of how the film which is the center of attention is being created.I got this idea from various magazine from Fangoria they use this feature quite a lot so I decided to incorporate it into our horror magazine.
From my research I have noticed that majority of horror magazines base there theme around there main image and hardly have any other images on the page,so the main image appears dominant along side the use of sub headings.I have followed this convention as I think this is what makes a horror magazine a horror magazine and if we did not do so then we would be going against a convention of horror magazines.
Despite following the majority of horror conventions we did break a few, for example the bar code is often located in the bottom left of the page. However in ours we placed it at the top right by the title.We broke this convention simply because it looked better structure wise and we did not want to much stuff going on at the bottom of the page as it would take the attention away from the show-reel.
If you take a look at most magazines you will notice that the the sub headings are usually located in the left hand of the page how ever I broke this convention and place them on the right.Again this decision was made due to the structure of the magazine and simply because it looked better on the right and did not obstruct the image like it would if i located it on the left.
Overall we have followed all majority of the conventions used in horror magazines and the only conventions we have broken were due to the structure and layout of the magazine how ever they are not that visible and our magazine still looks like a its part of the horror genre so overall I am very satisfied with the finished product.
The title of the magazine is located at the top of the page in the middle, this is a convention of all magazines with the exception of music magazine Q who locate their title on the top left of the magazine. The title is very large in comparison to the other subheadings this is to make it stand out and dominate the page.Horror magazines generally have san serif fonts with sharp edges. I have used a gothic font which suits the genre of the magazine, the sharp edges represent knives and other sharp objects that are used in horror films.
The title is red for two reasons. First of all the colour red portrays blood and violence and they are features you will often see in the horror genre. I made the red very dark so it complimented the dark background in order to create tension and suspense.
I used a wide range of fonts for the magazine cover, this is a convention used by all magazines as the different fonts represent a different section to the magazine or story. I used the font liquid crystal for one of the subheadings.The font is that of are magazine cover and teaser trailer and is the font we have used to represent our film. As the film focuses around time, the liquid crystal font is similar to that of a digital clock.
I have followed a convention by incorporating the films font and title onto the magazine cover. When a film is the main focus of the magazine they tend to use the films font when displaying it on the magazine. This is an example of synergy,which is used by every magazine in order to help promote a film.
The subheading 3:15 is the largest subheading on the page it is the largest to show it is the main focus of the magazine which is a convention of all horror magazines.
At the bottom of the page I created a montage of clips into a visual picture show reel, they show behind the scene footage of how the film which is the center of attention is being created.I got this idea from various magazine from Fangoria they use this feature quite a lot so I decided to incorporate it into our horror magazine.
Despite following the majority of horror conventions we did break a few, for example the bar code is often located in the bottom left of the page. However in ours we placed it at the top right by the title.We broke this convention simply because it looked better structure wise and we did not want to much stuff going on at the bottom of the page as it would take the attention away from the show-reel.If you take a look at most magazines you will notice that the the sub headings are usually located in the left hand of the page how ever I broke this convention and place them on the right.Again this decision was made due to the structure of the magazine and simply because it looked better on the right and did not obstruct the image like it would if i located it on the left.
Overall we have followed all majority of the conventions used in horror magazines and the only conventions we have broken were due to the structure and layout of the magazine how ever they are not that visible and our magazine still looks like a its part of the horror genre so overall I am very satisfied with the finished product.
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