movie magazine front cover construction

From receiving target audience feedback this was the image that my target group most preferred and thought would be most appropriate to use as a main image on my magazine front cover.

To incorporate the horror in my movie magazine front cover I then took a signature item of my film which was "the noose", and placed it behind the text with a low opacity. A bar code was also then added to the bottom corner to alert people that this was a magazine and not just a movie poster.

As I felt the film reels didn't work too well at the masthead of the magazine I then thought it would be a good idea to use it as a footer so that people would relate it to a film at first glance.

I then added a puff at the top of the magazine which would entice people to buy the magazine and encourage sales.

I then began to add in cover lines to make my magazine front cover come to life, I added a red bloody hand onto my front cover as I felt that it added some of my teaser trailer elements.

After a lot of experimenting I tried to use a film reel in order to replace the O's in my masthead and in order to do this it made me creating many more layers. Again this is a change I didn't include in the end as I felt it didn't work in my favour and made my work look unprofessional.