Film Magazine Front Cover

This is my film magazine front cover which I have create myself using Photoshop.  This magazine cover has many features which make it appealing to audiences.  Firstly I am going to discuss the house style of the magazine cover I have produced.  I made a complex house style to make it look professional.  I have grey to mark subtitles, white to mark sub texts and created my own specialist font for the others.  Next I will describe the image I have used for the background.  I have taken this picture myself ad uploaded it onto Photoshop.  I took this image because it has the main villain, which might spark fear into audiences and it also has the main characters to let the audience know who is involved.  Also this image shows danger as the villain is in front of the teenagers which will intrigue audiences.  The fonts I have used link in with the horror of the cover.  However I created my own text more for the masthead and the headline.  For the masthead I used letter templates from the internet and filled them in and created my own blood using the 'paint brush tool' and 'liquidfying' it in the filter section to create a blood stream.  The blood links in with horror conventions as blood is within the category of horror.  The headline I use I created in dafont.com, I have made it fit with the horror theme of the cover, I have also made it stand out from the rest of the magazine by using the colour red.  The tagline "THE BONE CHILLING ISSUE", links with the horror theme of the cover because the use of the words "BONE CHILLING", these words together make a horror themed feeling.  I have used popular known films on this cover to intrigue the audience by using well known films.  The film "Paranormal Activity" links in with the horror theme of the magazine because it is a well known scary film.  The other two films are well known for their actors and previous films which makes them popular.  The sub texts under them link back to the titles, this gives the audience more insight into the magazine within.  I have put in the issue of the magazine, the date and the price, these three features are all must have conventions of magazine covers there I put them there to add a sense of realism to the magazine and professionalism.  I have used a pug to promote the film Skyfall and it mentions about the actor with reference to the film, this promotes Skyfall and the magazine.  I have put a tagline under the headline explain more about headline.  The phrase "BEWARE THE SHADOWS OF THE FOREST" has horror essence to it because it is play on words with horror.  This tagline is in green to again stand out from the magazine.  Finally I have put a barcode on the cover, barcodes are a must have feature for covers has it makes them personalised.  The effects I have added to the image is lowing the brightness and making the contrast higher.  I have done this to make the make the magazine darker which links back the horror theme.