As I did with my poster, I conducted a photo shoot for pictures for my magazine cover. I wanted to keep it simplistic and have an automatic essence that it is of the horror genre. Originally I tried to recreate a stand out scene from our trailer where our protagonist gets grabbed by an unknown being. I thought that this summed up our film in one shot and would be affective in grabbing the audience's attention. Also the position of Ellie (our protagonist), looking to the right is a convention that I noticed was used often when analysing already existing magazines as it draws the readers' attention to where you would typically turn the page to read inside, sending subliminal messages to the audience.
However, when I placed this as my background and added text on top, the fitting was not proportionate and it looked disproportionate and unprofessional for a magazine cover. Although I really like the essence of the photograph it just didn't work when put to practice aesthetically.
I then, on our second day of shooting, decided to try and capture another photograph while on set of filming to be inspired by Film Comment magazine that uses still frames from the film as their main cover image. Just as we finished a scene I took some photographs of the unknown supernatural being in our trailer (Holly as our antagonist), stood silhouetted in the doorway. I loved this image as it still captured the dark and eerie feeling that I wanted to encapsulate the horror genre, but it told us a little about the film but left the viewers guessing on who this character is without revealing too much. A lot of my images tuned out blurry, however the one you can see below is the one image that turned out best in my opinion. this is the image I decided to use for my main cover image.
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