Research for ancillary task (film magazine)

When looking to create a suitable film magazine cover I looked at a variety of essential codes and conventions apparent and relevent to the widespread consumption of a successful cover. I looked at the eight covers shown above and from that chose to use elements from each one to build my own poster. Many of the posters were taken from TOTAL FIlM, this is because when researching many of the films and cover stories related directly to either sdingular character interviews or the film itself. The genre of texts were also closer to that of my own from this text.
Many of thecovers focused on representing the main protagonist of the text. Therefore It seemed an obvious choice for a horror cover to show the killer whom within the horror genre can be argued to be the strong anti hero/figure of power within horror texts. The ideology behind this is that people cannot get close to the killer within the films as they are lead to fear them but in a magazine they can be gratified through be able to understand his/hers reasonings or in most cases pathological thought patterns often stimulated through a in turn vicious past.