Horror magazine research

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

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

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.