For this task I had to create a magazine cover for my own opening sequence that I have previously made, my opening sequence was called stillborn and was a psychological thriller. Previous to this task I had conducted research into the conventions of a magazine cover, these were the typical conventions shown on a cover. For my own magazine cover I decided to make the cover a 'horror edition' to fit in with the genre of my opening sequence - due to this I made the colour theme red and white. I chose these colours as I feel red is a typical convention of a psychological thriller/horror film as it is linked with blood and gore. Originally I was going to chose black as my second colour as black is also associated with psychological thriller/horror but I felt black did not stand out as well as white - this was still a magazine cover to I felt it needed to have clearly visible writing to attract the readers.
There was a selection of different photos I could have used for this cover I chose this one as I like the angle the photo was take from and that it was a mid shot of the main character from my opening sequence - whilst conducting research I found that the typical image on the front cover was a mid shot of the main character from the feature film.
To add to the realism of the front cover I added extra information like cover lines of different horror films that would also be featured, a banner stating 'film magazine of the year' and little details such as a barcode.
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