Choosing a suitable magazine

Here I shall be discussing the design and suitability of each magazine design to our eery horror film 'Childhood'. I am the only one out of my group to write my part, but whilst doing so I am thinking on behalf of what I believe the rest of my members of the group would think. We share similar taste and thoughts.

Empire
I believe the magazine Empire will be the least appropriate and less suited to fit our film. If our film was perhaps a sequence/sequal then Empire may be ideal however our film is not. 'Childhood' is an original early arty film which is new in the market so I believe it will need to be featured in a magazine which is less familiar than Empire; not so the magazine is known to no one, just not on one of the most popular magazines covers. Empire cover films such as
  'Pirates of the Caribbean'   







               
   'Harry Potter'

 'The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo'

'The Dark Knight Rises'







'X-MEN'






'The Hobbit', and many more fantastic familiar films!

My thoughts
Having taken in to consideration all examples of magazines these are my thoughts in as much detail to really feel an idea of mine I think we could perceive for our own magazine cover:

Total film
Considerable!

Little White Lies
Very considerable. Each and every example of Little White Lies' magazine covers I have researched, are slightly different in the own particular ways so we could easily adapt the design, perhaps keep to the layout as if we changed it completely the magazine brand will not be recognisable, to suit the genre of 'Childhood'. Below is the best example I found that I believe is the closest magazine cover design to suit a horror cinema advertisement:

My idea, I suggest, we could have the same use of colours; blinding white on a black background, and the image in the centre of the cover can be a white outline of Katie, our Oscar Award Winning actress starring as the main character in 'Childhood', sitting on a chair with her head down, hair all straggly and hanging down by either side of her face, in all white costume almost exactly the same to what we dressed her in our teaser trailer, most obviously in a lonely room with 24/7 surveillance. 

This magazine cover can distract some audience members and subtract the tackiness horror cinema can portray when published on paper.

Studio
The least best suited magazine for our film!The layout, colour scheme nor the design fits our genre of film. Plus on most examples of their magazine covers, the feature the main character and our film we wish to leave a mystery, we do not want to print the obvious as we want our film to stay eery and almost frightening.

Primary research
PARACINEMA- After viewing and comparing these examples to find the best suited magazine to feature our film 'Childhood' on the front cover, I continued further and conducted my own research but did not come across many more fantastic film magazines. Although I found one I was found of. The more I look at it the more I can see it working with our film. Positive: Para Cinema is a particular magazine for films with an obvious genre and most of the films featured on the cover are horror and our film has exactly this genre. Negative: the magazine can come across quite comical. The images aren't feautured as clear or concisely and our film is about detail.
Examples of Para Cinema magazine covers:

 Overall thoughts: I have come to a conclusion that Para Cinema magazine is almost tacky (it is a shame because most horror movie magazines come across as this and struggle to portray the true meaning of the film without it looking comical and childish). Para Cinema magazine's suggest they target the audience of young boys who are childishly quite boisterous and into gore.




VIRUS magazine- The suitability of this magazine to our genre of film is compatible. I simply found this magazine through the popular search engine 'Google'.. Below I have uploaded a couple of examples of Virus' magazine covers:

Above the large size text of the title of film 'Hostel' you shall notice that is where the tag line is inserted. This shall be taken into consideration.

Note to self: Underneath the title you notice the tag line printed in smaller text in comparison to the title size. This is important to notice and is most obvious as the title would most definitely be larger than the tag line.. but the quesiton is do we want to be similiar or daringly different we shall decide.

Positive:     simple and vague layout, therefore easily adaptable to make do and change slightly in a format that'll best suit a horror cinema film. The font text of the magazine title 'Virus' suits a horror genre so if we featured in this magazine the connection will work as the link is similar.

Negative:     the font of the magazine title'Virus' is possibly too similar to the font we used for our title for 'Childhood'.

Hearing my groups feedback towards this post will be needed to make a final decision towards the actual magazine cover we wish to feature our film on the front cover.