Magazine Research

The genre for this magazine is horror and the certificate for this film is 15. This makes it relevant to our film as our targeted audience is 15 and this will help us when producing our magazine as we will know the conventions used to attract people from this age range of 15+. The main image on the magazine is of the actual killer in the film, this makes the magazine cover more mysterious. The mask is placed directly in the centre of the page and looking directly at us, this grabs the audiences attention instantly, as it creates eye-contact. The title of the film is also in the centre of the magazine however, it is placed over the image of the killer, this suggests that the action taking place is in the word as the mouth of the mask is open so it actually suggests that the mask is screaming. We also learn that the film is from a sequel as the number four has been replaced with an A. 

The conventions of this magazine front cover are that it includes a masthead, straplines, pug and kicker. The font choice of the masthead is bold and simple this makes it easier for the audience for familiarise them self with the magazine.  Also, the masthead, "review", takes up the full length of the magazine so it will be easier for the audience to remember and because its bold it will most likely to be the first text they will see, which makes the magazine more eye-catching. 

The strap lines are all in different fonts, by doing this it makes the magazine seem more appealing, such as 'splash hits' looks as if it has been written in blood this has a positive effect as when blood runs it usually goes in lots of directions just like the text on the magazine, this makes the magazine look more gruesome and suggests death. This would attract the targeted audience as they would be interested to find out more information based on the horror stories. As the text used gives the targeted audience an insight of what the stories include might be based on.

Also, other strap lines such as 'We went through hell together', this text is more simple as the caption is more serious this suggests that the story may be based on a real-life scernio, this would also attract the targeted audience as they would find out about different horror experiences that have happened to people. This also, relates to the film, as Scream 4 also involves young adults experiencing horrfic events which then cause thier death.

The kicker does across the top of the magazine which says, '131 Reviews ! UK's Biggest Film and TV Guide'. By doing this is advertise's the magazine and it will gain more viewers for the film. The first part '131 Reviews' is in yellow and on a red backgorund which makes it more outstanding for the targeted audience. This tells us that it is important that the magazine contains 131 reviews. The second part 'The UK's biggest film and TV guide', is written in white on a red backgorund. This also shows how important this fact is to attract the viewers attention and it emphasieses the popularirty of the magazine.

The pug on the magazine is shown on the top heft hand side and it says, 'Slasher Special! 20 Gore Soaked Pages Featuring..' This would attract the targeted audience becuase it meantions that there are special features in the magaizne. Also, using the colours yellow, white and red in different places on the magazine will attract the audiences attention more easily.

The main colours on the magazine are black, white, red and yellow. The colours red and yellow are bright and black and white are dull colours. Also, the colour red suggests murder, blood and danger, this gives an insight to the audience that the film will involve death. Also, black creates a mysterious mood and with darkness bad things occur, also when its dark no-one knows whats going to happen next this creates suspence and attracts the audiences attention more. Also, the colour white can mean many things however, when associated with a horror film the colour white to suggest no emotions because Scream 4 is so scary after watching it the targeted audience would be speachless. However, by using the colour yellow it adds more brightness onto the magazine and highlights the extra's on the magazine, this could also suggest that in the film Scream 4 not all the events that take place are scary there are some happy scenes as the colour yellow symbolises happiness.

The genre for this magazine is horror. The main colours used on this magazine are red, white, blue and black. The masthead of the magazine is in a simple font which makes it stand out aganist the other text, also having a shade of black as a shadow creates more emphasis on the title. The name of the magazine 'Goreszone', stand out itself as the name suggests that the magazine will include many scary images and gory writing, this would attract the audiences as they would expect this from a horror magazine.

The main image on the maagzine has been made to look like a grewsome character. This would relate to our stroyline as the mother in our film turns into a psychopath due to her daughters death and the woman on this front cover could have harmed herself. She looks like a grewsomke character, due to her blood sumdges on her skin and clothes, this could either suggest she attacked herself or a creature did. Also, as the model is looking directly at us and we get to see her full face this engages the adiences attention more and they will most likely buy the magazine. Also, the way in which the model is staring gives a scary feel to the magazine.

The strap lines on the magazine include the actors names, they are in bold red colour and the font used it quite big. However, the actos name of the woman is in a much bigger font compared to the others, this is to show her importance and promote who she is. Also, underneath the actors name in a light blue colour a description of the movie is included, this stands out as the text is in a bright colour.