Draft Different colour schemes for final product: magazine

These are the first drafts of my horror magazine cover that I made. I created three different colour schemes that I could use for my final product I really like the way that these have turned out but I think that they don't look 'horror' enough even though I wanted to go for the more 'glamorous' approach. I called my magazine 'DIVA', because it's definition is a 'successful women'; I thought this was a clever technique in implying the target audience and drawing women in to the cover before even picking it up. Personally, I believe it's a catchy title (and memorable too) which is very important in assisting distribution.

The issue that I did for my magazine is called the glamorous horror issue; this meant that I wanted the magazine to look more 'girly'. Due to the target audience of our magazine being for females I believe this would therefore bring in a greater profit. I think that the pink background looks really good but possibly a little bit too child like. The header of my magazine is 'diva' the font that I used for this is an old Hollywood style I like this because it connotes old fashioned film. On my magazine cover I also have a bubble with speech in it, I like this because it makes your eye catch the text. I think that the contrast between the cream and the black on this bubble means that the writing is very easy to read. The image of one of my actors from my film is covering some of the header for my magazine but because it would be an iconic logo, this shows that it is an established brand which already has its own audience.

I think that something that could be improved on my magazine cover is that it needs to be a bit more horror like. I also think that I want to change the background colour of the magazine to something more simple, I think that this would make my magazine look less feminine and more 'classy horror'.