Draft Magazine Front cover

This is the image that I chose to use when it came to creating my magazine front cover. I thought that the use of lighting followed my genre of a horror well as it created the image of mystery. The background space of the image itself would also allow me some room when it came to including my masthead, puffs and plugs. The actual image itself in terms of the hand holding the light bulb I feel is very effective when capturing the narrative of my trailer as well as adding for the viewer the uncomfortable image of the blood seeping from the hand due to the glass. The space within the image also allowed me the room to do any cropping that I felt may benifit the layount and presentation of my magazine front cover. When it comes to the name of my magazine front cover I came up with the idea of 'Film Reel' which would be my main masthead presented within my final poster. From looking at my research I noticed that the layout of magazine front covers played an important role when interesting the reader to read and buy the magazine, therefore I want to make sure that I stick to the stereotypes that are expected within many other well known magazine front covers.