Magazine Cover Planning

For our magazine I want to keep it to the horror genre, this means I am going to base it around the magazine Scream, a horror film specific movie magazine. I will use the scream title and a few other things that feature in the magazine while creating my own logo for our film name 'The Gear Shift Killer'. My aim for our magazine cover is to make it as similar as possible to the real thing, I want to make it look like a legitimate Scream cover.

As long as I use parts of the magazine in the right way and in the right place, the font/logo of the 'Gear Shift Killer' is right and the image looks right it should all come together fairly smoothly. In the pursuit of creating a convincing Scream magazine cover I will need all of the elements of a normal, Scream magazine cover. This includes the following:
- Scream Banner (Website URL and 'Blood, Guts and More')
- Main Image
- Masthead
- Cover Lines - This can include images, but of something relating to the cover line
- Barcode
- Main Cover Line (Gear Shift Killer)
- Barcode
- Pull Quote (The quote attached to the main cover line)

The main image of the magazine has to be something I focus on. Many of the photos used in actual editions of Scream have some sort of filter over them to make them look more dark and mysterious than they actually are. For example take the magazine cover that I have used in this, the image of the housing estate and the people in the clouds are black and white, with a warm filter over the top of it, this brings out the contrast in the clouds and makes the place look a lot more gloomy than it may have done in real life, these kind of techniques will draw the audience into the magazine as this is what they're looking for.