This is my final design for the Sight and Sound magazine. The main image recurs throughout the film as a class photo. It is a significant part of our trailer/movie as during both, whenever someone gets killed, their picture gets crossed off in red pen in this photo. So the image is taken from the trailer/ film itself, rather than being produced just for the magazine. The image is too innocent in itself to put on the front cover, due to the fact that it is a lighthearted, casual, bright photograph of smiling young people. From the photo alone the reader would not be able to tell it is a horror film, so to make the image more sinister, I put a shade of blood red in the background. This is to imply a sense of danger or violence, so the audience starts to feel that this isn't in fact a happy school drama film, and is indeed rather the opposite. On the left hand side of the magazine there is a brief contents listing for this issue - in big white words that stand out you can see the word "Plus" showing what extras are in the magazine. The words below are in a clear white bold font, nothing fancy, so the reader can easily see what is written and tell what is inside. It works also in showing up clearly against the black that is behind it.The contents of the magazine are interviews with various actors/directors, all British to add to the British theme of this 'Special' issue. Just below this you can see the Union Jack flag and on it the words "British Special" so the reader can easily see it is an issue based just on British films and film industy. The sub heading below the words "British Special" says "Amateur film makers", e.g my group and I, "shock Britian with..." - this is to show it is a national production and not a blockbuster hit in America. Then I decided to use the same font for the title of the film that I did in the film poster, ie in the bold white writing at the bottom right of the magazine. At first the writing didn't stand out clearly enough against the background, and as the title of the film was vital to make it stand out more, I placed a dark red blood splat just behind the film title. It also adds another horror effect to the image.
