Horror magazine front cover analysis

A horror magazine i found through research.

This magazine I found through research for horror magazines to analyse I found to stick out most because with each edition they have a certain film producer and all the films of that producer are in the edition.

Going along with the horror conventions of things being dark and bloody/gory they have kept the magazine cover dark with the killer on the front holding his blade. They have chosen more than one colour for the writing but made sure that all the colours used stand out against the background, some magazines such as Empire magazine tend to have one colour backgrounds and one main focus however because there are so many focuses on this magazine they have had to use many different colours for all the strap-lines and text.

The left third which is green has an orange coloured text similar to the main title; however on the left side of the magazine you will see it is sort of the other way round, green writing on a beige backing where the sub content of the magazine is listed.

The writing is in red for the name of the film and for the masthead of the magazine although it is in yellow, it’s very bold and been given a dripping effect and although the colour is yellow, we all know blood drips and so it gives that type of effect, Looking as if almost it’s been painted on a piece of wood.

The strap-line listed underneath the title is 3 typical things that you would expect during watching a horror film, "Blood, Guts, Gore and More!" The film Friday the 13th goes along with the convention of, "what happened to those kids." Group of teens off on a trip and one by one get butchered.

Instead of attracting readers with the one main image like Empire magazine tend to do, this says a lot about Empire magazine, you can clearly see with Scream magazine they are trying very hard to shout out and say look how much our magazine contains read it! However with empire the front suggests that they are a lot more sophisticated, established so they do not need to shout and say how great their magazine is because people already know and will buy. Along the side they have other images of different movies with strap-lines the magazine is shouting out how much about how many films is in this magazine. Another small change from Empire magazine is how the barcode is set on the left third rather than on the right hand side yet similarly is very subtle to Empire magazine.

Also this magazine cover shows films and film characters and everything on the cover is to do with film however on the Empire magazine they have things which are slightly separate to the point, for instance on one of the Empire magazine covers there is a gold circle in which is written in large, "40 movies that will get you sex!" This is one the front cover of an Empire edition where the main background colour is red and is in gold. Whereas on the he Scream magazine they’re using all sorts of colours and images to attract your attention shouting out read me, the Empire magazine being subtle and established one small thing like that attracts lots of attention, Empire magazine don’t bombard you with different focuses they give you a few main ones however when looking at the Scream magazine threes so much for your eyes to look at your looking all over the page.