Side By Side Magazine Analysis

From looking at my magazine cover the redness just catches the attention, which is a conventional strategy used on magazine covers.  I used the red colour to connote blood and danger as this is very common with most gory horrors which is what my trailer was aiming for. The black background is something that is also a key aspect of horror magazines. The bleakness of this connotes death and evil, which are everything you’re going to get in a gory horror with zombies.

Just like the magazine cover beside mine I have used the archetype of a female; however you cannot actually tell whether they are the “final girl” or the victim. In my poster I have included a phallic symbol which is an axe which represents power and strength. 

I used the technique of listing the contents of the magazine down the side, which is very similar to the Joker Empire magazine, however on the opposite side and less of them.I also had the idea to use more than one image so I put together three zombie images together to fit in with the theme of my trailer and fanned them out to give it a more interesting look. 

I wanted to make my magazine look like a very popular magazine that reaches out to a wide range of audiences. I did this by using the catchphrase at the top “UK’s greatest film magazine”. I placed a head in front of the font which was conventional as can be seen in the film magazine cover and the Empire cover.The main focus is the face which can be seen in all three as well even though in mine the girl is not looking straight at the camera that was so that I could get the angle of the arm swooping round as if to go and kill her and as we can see the hand is covered in blood which gives of the impression that it could be a zombie but not giving away too much.