Existing Film Magazine Ideas.

 To get some ideas for our media magazine we decided to do some research on some magazines that already exist. We decided to look in our local shops to see if they had any horror magazine ideas but having little success we decided to browse the internet for inspiration.

The Character The Joker comes from "The Dark Knight" which is the last of a series of films about The Batman. Although this film is more action than horror as a group we liked the detail of the makeup used on The Joker and also the way this magazine was layed out and it gave us some inspiration for our own work. The letters joker were written in a way so it looked like the O and E had been stamped on, but also the lettering in general reminded us of the joker instantly. His head is positioned facing downwards which gives him a dark feeling but we can see he is looking directly at the camera with the one eye that is visual. We decided to use this idea in our photography so that our actor was facing away from the camera but he was still looking directly as if he was looking right at the audience. We did however think this magazine cover was a bit cramped and the space wasnt used as effectively as it could have been.

The lettering on this magazine was used really well and gave out the impression to the audience that it is a horror magazine instantly. Our group liked the makeup effects used in this picture and it gave us the inspiration that blood coming out of the mouth would be a really good vampire look. This magazine follows the typical conventions of a magazine but is also careful not to use to much lettering which would cover the image up.