MAGAZINE COVER ANALYSATION

The cover of Diabolique promotes the film 'The Woman In Black'. It features Daniel Radcliffe as the lead actor in the movie, showing he is important and a vital role in the film. It also uses a background related to the film to give the audience a sense of setting and location. It uses the film's logo which is the biggest font on the cover apart from the magazine's title, showing that it is the featured movie article inside. The cover also includes various tag lines which are all of the horror genre, for example "black sabbath" and "gothic". This is to keep in theme of the movie it is promoting and in a way gives clues of what the audience can expect from the movie. The consistent blue and white font tie in with the colours of the featured image and background, whilst the orange links with the magazine title. The character's eyes also provide an example of synergy with the blue sky and font. The outfit of the character is black, which is typically related to death, another general convention associated with horror films

The actual design of the magazine is very well suited to the nature, as it has a very old fashioned style of writing and colors. This works well with the character as he is very well suited to the design and makes the cover that much more effective.

The reason for choosing this magazine cover for inspiration is how the genre of the film links closely the genre we will be using. The magazine cover proves that using simple design and style is equally as effective in enticing audiences to reading the magazine.