Rather than having an image of one of the main characters of
the film, I decided to use an image of the director of the film. The reason for
this choice was to try and raise the profile of the film as a ‘serious’ film,
as horrors are sometimes seen as just being cheap pieces of cinema with no real
thought. I wanted to show a respectable “auteur” figure who would be able to
share some knowledge about the unseen side of the film, and allow the potential
audience to see the work it takes to produce something like this.
The auteur on the front cover has the connotations of a hard
worker. This will also amplify the idea that this film is the product of a lot
of hard work from respectable looking people and not the creeps that you
imagine having the ideas necessary to direct a horror film. By having the
director wearing ordinary clothes on the front cover, it shows that horror is
not some lower class strange thing that shouldn’t be taken seriously. I wanted my magazine cover to look classy but still be affordable, which would attract an audience of aspirers, who want to be above who they currently are but also a mainstream audience. Film magazines usually display the newest/most popular films that they are writing about on the front cover because this will attract fans of those films to buy the magazine. I kept this in mind whilst making my magazine cover and made lots of those features on the front page, with a phrase above that sums it up.
The colour scheme of my front cover is grey, black and white tones which makes the red of ‘CUT’ stand out on the page and catch the reader’s attention which means that they will both buy the magazine and go and watch the film in the cinema.
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