'Horrific' Magazine and Teaser Poster First Drafts

Here is the first draft of my film magazine based around the horror genre. As you can see I followed many of the codes and conventions of average film magazines like ‘Total Film’ and ‘Empire’. I placed the masthead at the top of my magazine so that the title will be easily visible when the magazine is placed on a shop shelf with other magazines. I named the magazine ‘Horrific’ as I believe this immediately connotes to the audience that the magazine will be based on the horror genre. The trailer for my horror film is promoted on the front cover of this magazine to portray that the magazine is focused on horror films.

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Here is the draft for my teaser film poster. Through my research of teaser film posters I discovered that teaser posters always contain very little information about the thing e.g. just a film title, background image, possible release date, etc. I used this research to assist me when designing my teaser poster. As you can see the trailer for my horror film is promoted on the front cover. I created this draft before me and the other members in my group decided to change the title. I used an effect to alter the original background image to black and white. I also adjusted the brightness and contrast of the image to make it darker and appeal more to the genre of horror.

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