For my own magazine cover, I will make use of some of the main magazine cover conventions. This will include a main image, a masthead, cover lines, strapline, and barcode/issue number. Like the poster, I want to stick to these conventions as best I can to make the movie poster as realistic as possible, and to make it seem realistic. Despite sticking to these main conventions, I will try not to have too many coverlines to avoid the magazine cover seeming too clustered. This is to show that the magazine is not a widely marketed one and is instead a smaller, independent film magazine, which I want to convey in my cover.
Initial ideas
I want my magazine cover to again depict the villain, so the genre can be easily identified again. I am considering using picture 1 this time, as I feel it will be appropriate for a magazine cover, as, like the second picture, it presents the villain as threatening and menacing (reinforced this time by the gun in his hands). The picture will be eye-catching, which will conform to the convention of a main image which dominates that most magazine covers have. It will also conform to the convention of an eye-catching array of colours, with the red snout contrasting with the brown behind the villain and the yellowness of the mask. I will potentially use the outline of the villain and place it onto the magazine cover instead of having the background visible. I think this might make the magazine cover look more sinister, as the only image available will be that of the villain with the gun, and as such the audience are likely to pay more attention to it and recognise that the magazine cover is promoting a horror movie.
(Final picture for magazine cover)
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