FINAL MAGAZINE DESIGNS - 'EVIL' pullout part2

This is our final design for our magazine cover. We designed a 'good' and 'bad' cover. This cover is the 'bad' cover based on magazine covers such as 'Empire'. We wanted to portray clearly a 'sinister side' to our magazine. We used a colour scheme of red and black which we have used throughout creating all three products. We chose to focus on red and black because they relate to the love and death theme which is key as well as complement eachother well and stand out.

We stuck with conventions of magazines by placing the name of the magazine at the top of the cover. We not only stuck to this convention because existing magazines do but stuck with it because we felt it was the best place to stand out to the audience and to be one of the first things that the audience see which is what we want. We also decided to colour the title in red, not only for the connotation reasons I have previously stated but that it will be instantly eye catching.

On this side of the magazine cover we decided not to use too many stories on the front page opposed to what you would usually see on existing magazine covers. The reason for this is because we made the 'good' side of the magazine cover as similar to existing magazines as possible because it was the one we wanted make it as "normal" as possible. However the 'evil' cover challenged conventions because it was more to relate to the film opposed to the 'good' one. We still added one story in a red bubble in order to stick to conventions but we didn't want it to be too similar to the pull out it will be attached to.

We used an image where the model is giving direct eye contact to the audience. We did this not only to stick to conventions of magazines we have researched but to try and intimidate and scare the audience. Normally in magazine covers eye contact is used to relate and connect to the audience which is what we have done with the 'good' cover however we want to make the audience interested in the film with the second cover.

Overall i'm pleased with the cover because I feel as if it conveys the horror genre well. The limit in colours also help it to not become too "busy" and "confusing".