Magazine Research

Blogged by Anya

Today we looked at Empire magazine front covers as research for our own. We chose to look at Empire because it is a successful, current movie magazine.
From our research, we found there were two types of front cover. There were the ones that focused on the actor(s) and covers that used stills/posed shots from the film itself:




We decided that we would prefer to create a magazine cover that used either a screen shot of the film or a posed shot with the actor in character, rather than focus on the actor herself. We felt it would be more effective for a horror film to have a scary magazine cover as promotion rather than distract with the actor.