This is our final magazine front cover that we designed as part of a group using Adobe Photoshop. We used a Digital SLR camera to take an image of the main character (the hooded figure) which was to be featured on the front cover. We took the image of the main character against a tree trunk which provided an edgy background.
We then adjusted the image in Adobe Photoshop add added different visual elements such as the plaster on the mouth and the pins to make the character look intimidating. The fact that the main character was wearing a hood adds suspense and leaves the audience in thought as to who the hooded character may be.
We then followed some of the generic conventions of Empire Magazines that we found during our research. The font used for the strap lines ‘It’s a blood curdling, mass executor’ and ‘Meet the outsides interview’ was from a website called dafont.com.
We used a simple colour scheme of black, white and grey and incorporated elements of red in order to ensure that certain parts of the magazine stood out. The combination of black, white and grey reinforces the mysteriousness and the red represents not only blood, but also our genre: Horror.
Other generic conventions that we incorporated within our magazine cover is the magazine issue number, the date, price and the bar code which where all positioned the same way that they were positioned on the ‘Empire’ magazine.
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