Monday, 27 April 2015
magazine Analysis
I created my magazine
in the style of the iconic magazine ‘Fangoria’, which is a US magazine
containing mainly slasher and gore horror films. However, I feel that the style
of the magazine isn't perfect for the more psychological side of my film.
However the magazine did create was very conventional to a horror magazine, for
example the colors. The main colors on my magazine are red and black both
conventional for a horror magazine as the both connote fear and danger. The
type I used was red and has dripping effect representing the look of blood,
this links well with the theme of ‘Fangoria’ being mainly slasher films. The
use of yellow writing for information works well as it contrasts to one another
making it stand out and appeal to the audience.
Another convention is
the main character or scariest character being the main image on the magazine,
as this will appeal to the target audience. Two shots are very conventional
when showing the archetypal character in horror (monster or killer) a close up
or a long shot from a low angle to show the power and strength of the person.
Overall I feel that my
magazine I created is effective
and works well, I feel that a magazine writing about a horror film should stick
to the genre of horror film magazines. As a weekly or monthly release for
horror magazines the target audience will aspect the latest film will be in the
magazine as they will most likely have a subscription. However when putting a
horror film such as mine in a magazine such s empire or total film I feel it
doesn't work as well and the more up market look doesn't work as well for
horror films and will to appeal to the audience as much.
Subscribe to:
Comments (Atom)