Horror Magazine Mock Up

Out of the three mockups I did, I felt like the final magazine that I had produced followed the conventions of a typical movie magazine more than the other two did. When I first started to experiment with the magazine I used an image I had taken of my main actress holding a bloody knife, which I first assumed would be a good representation of the genre until I realised that body parts are not often featured as the main image in a movie magazine. I adapted this and decided to instead use a headshot of my actress, which instantly seemed to be more of a representative of other magazines that are already out there. After doing some research into magazines, I also realised that horror magazines often used a selection of reds, greens, darker tones and yellows. This is implemented in my final piece as I've coloured some of the text in yellow which makes certain information stand out over other text. Strategies like this ensure that the viewer will be reading certain phrases, and if they are of the target audience of my magazine then they will be more likely to want to purchase the magazine so they can read up on key information that has been highlighted.

For the title of my horror movie magazine, I took influence from "Paracinema". It stood out to me amongst the other magazines that I was looking at and since yellow is such a bold colour, I decided to use a similar tone of yellow which would ensure that my title would stand out amongst others if it were to be stacked in a shelf. I also had to consider the connotations of my title, and finally came to the conclusion of "Gorezone" as the lexical choice of the word "Gore" would be an instant summary as to what my magazine would include, as the majority of horror movies contain violence for a shock factor. In the end I didn't choose to use any special effects on the title such as making it look weathered as I felt like sometimes this could make the magazine title harder to read, and I wanted my magazine to look like it had distinguished branding and wasn't trying to mask or cover anything.

Having the title in bold capital letters also made the magazine look like it was more professional as it is a popular convention of a magazine, making it much clearer to read.

Initially when I was viewing pre existing magazines I found one that instantly stood out to me due to the simplicity of the way that the captions were displayed. The large amount of space between each piece of text meant that the audience's eyes would not wander around the page and would have a clear view of the information that was provided to them. This wasn't really so much of a conventional device of a magazine as it is rare to find text above the masthead but I don't feel like it drew any attention away from any of the larger text.