Slasher Film Magazine

This is the stages in which my media product (magazine front cover) was created.

I started off with the basic images, without any cropping done to them, or edits what so ever.

I then moved on to cropping out images I took, to put into the reel, which would evidently consist of all my featured stories. 

I then started adding in the blood effects, to make this a slasher film related magazine front cover. I then experimented with all the different places I could place the blood effects, to make it look gruesome, however not too much that it would overload the page, and prevent writing to be placed. 

After placing in the photos for the featured stories, I decided to start on the tag lines and featured stories, I chose the main story to be called 'Sweet Revenge' the typography of the word sweet is quite fancy, and also pink this makes it a very feminine icon, however when placed together with the word Revenge, in red, with sharp, frigid edges, it gives the meaning a whole new level. It helps tell the story, and also emphasises that this female figure is not to be messed with. 

Later on I decided to start cropping out the main image, to try and get a more colour contrasting back ground. and also fitted in a banner at the bottom, which would be a sense of additional incentive. Although the audience will not gain an object of some sort, they will have 'THEIR' opinion published on the website/magazine, which is much more of a greater deal in some cases. This would help boost sales, because you are targeting the audience personally, and by mentioning strong words such as 'YOU' helps to do this.

I decided to go with a colour scheme of black, red and yellow and white for my magazine, this is somewhat the same as that of the official fangoria magazine. The magazine used yellow, as a replacement colour of red, because in the not to distant past, yellow had connotations of death, anger... that of which red now has to newer generations.

 My magazine media product is very much like that of the normal fangoria. I have kept most of the conventions formulaic to fangoria, such as the mast head, which is exactly that of the official product. Considering the mast head it is covered in blood, I have tried to obstruct this, to give some confidence to the magazine, as it would be seen to have so much confidence that even if the mast head is in someway small or big obstructed, and still easily recognisable. This proves that brand identity plays a very huge role within a media product. It actually allows the media product to be recognised easily.

 To tempt the audience to buy this magazine, I have not only an additional incentive, but also a way in which individuals could get their word in. Seen above, I have the word 'YOUR' in the banner at the bottom, which takes things to a personal level, relating to freedom of speach, and opinions. This would subconsciously make the audience be able to relate to it easily and more effectively. Also the main additional incentive is very formulaic, because many magazines in the past have given out posters, other forms of additional incentives are, CD's, music downloads, vouchers/coupons...

 The main selling story is the biggest of all of the featured story tags. This is to state it's importance, and to let you know that it is what this specific issue has to offer.

 The featured story tells you what the stories are about, however they give no information away, giving the audience the urge to buy this media product and find out for themselves. Also the images, help support the individual tag lines.

 The use of blood used, is not overloading the page, and it gives the product a very gory effective, making the audience feel strongly about this new film being featured.