Magazine Cover

For our magazine cover we used a previous cover of Chris Pine where its a close up and his angle-of-gaze if towards the audience. We thought it would be effective to also have a close up but tilt the head slightly down and have the eyes looking up into the camera to draw the reader in. It also gives a sense of anger and violence; this represents the genre of horror. What we had kept constant between the ancillary tasks and our trailer was the main character. She is featured throughout the trailer and is also on the front cover and poster, this shows that all three tasks are created for the same film. We decided not to put too much writing around the image as it would take away from the double effect where the same image is used but one is less opaque and larger. This joins in with the trailer as at the beginning we had used "ghosting" which looks similar to the effect we had created on the front cover. We had kept the film title font the same throughout our tasks to combine all tasks together. Along the top of the magazine we had researched into 2011 horror films and wrote the names of 3 which our target audience (or the people who purchase the magazine) would watch. This is a common element which we had found was used in many 'Total Film' magazines. We wanted to create a special edition magazine which was based around horror films and we decided to do this by having articles and posters based around the horror genre.