ELECTRIC SHEEP MAGAZINE

Examples:

THIS MAGAZINE IS THE ONE WE WOULD LIKE TO DO A COVER FOR BECAUSE…

WE FEEL THAT IT WILL EMPHASISE THE FACT THAT OUR ACTOR IS FROM A HORROR FILM, AS TH MAGAZINE MAINLY CONSISTS OF DARK COLOURS THAT ARE ASSOCIATED WITH HORRORS FOR EXAMPLE BLACK AND RED. AS THESE COLOURS HEIGHTEN FEELINGS OF FEAR AND DREAD. RED IS ALSO MAINLY ASSOCIATED WITH DANGER FOR EXAMPLE BLOOD , WHICH IS A THEME THAT RUNS THROUGHOUT THE NARRATIVE OF OUR HORROR FILM AND TRAILER. BY CHOOSING THIS MAGAZINE, IT WOULD SHOW A CLEAR LINK TO HORROR. MOREOVER, THE WORDING ‘ELECTRIC SHEEP’ IS IN WHITE, WHICH IS THE SAME AS OUR POSTER TITLE,FURTHERMORE, THE FONT OF THE ‘ELECTRIC SHEEP’ IS CLEAN AND CLEAR TO READ.

• ALSO ALL OF THE ‘ELECTRIC SHEEP’ MAGAZINES HAVE THE ACTOR IS ALWAYS DOING SOMETHING OTHER THAN STATICALLY STARE DIRECTLY AT THE CAMERA. THIS ALLOWS THE MAGAZINE TO APPEAR MORE INTERESTING AND BE DISTINCT FROM OTHER MAGAZINES. THIS WOULD BE SOMETHING WE WOULD BENEFIT FROM AS OUR FILM IS AN INDEPENDENT FILM, SO HAVING A CONTRASTING MAGAZINE TO OTHER ONES, WOULD INTRIGUE MORE AUDIENCE MEMBERS TO WANT TO GO AND WATCH OUR FILM, MAKING THE AUDIENCE CURIOUS TO KNOW WHAT THE NARRATIVE IS ABUT. MOREOVER, THE IMAGES ALL LOOK AS IF THEY HAVE BEEN EDITED IN SOME WAY TO MAKE THEM APPEAR SLIGHTLY SINISTER LOOKING WHICH WE WOULD LIKE TO PORTRAY OUR ACTOR AS ALSO AS HE IS THE ANTAGONIST OF A HORROR.

• WE ALSO LIKE THE FACT THAT THE TEXT IS POSITIONED BOTH ABOVE AND BELOW ON THE MAGAZINE AS IT ALLOWS THE IMAGE TO BE FOCUSED ON AS IT IS COMPOSED IN THE MIDDLE. IT ALSO ALLOWS THE TEXT NOT TO GO INTO TOO MUCH DETAIL WHICH IS EFFECTIVE FOR THE FRONT OF A MAGAZINE COVER, AS IT SHOULDN’T GIVE TOO MUCH AWAY.

• ‘ELECTRIC SHEEP’ HAS HAD VARIOUS CRITIQUES COMMENT ON IT AND SAY THINGS SUCH AS:

• ‘ELECTRIC SHEEP IS A REFRESHING AND ORIGINAL MAGAZINE THAT EXPLORES THE WORLD OF FILM FROM MYRIAD ANGLES WITH WIT AND IMAGINATION.’

• JENNIFER HIGGIE, FRIEZE

• ‘ELECTRIC SHEEP WRITES ABOUT FILM FOR PEOPLE WHO LIKE FILM: A CLASSIC APPROACH.’

• NORMAN LEBRECHT, THE NEW STATESMAN

• ‘THE COOLEST MAGAZINE IN TOWN.’

• SUZANNE BALLANTYNE, RAINDANCE FILM FESTIVAL

• THESE COMMENTS ARE ALL THINGS THAT WE ARE HOPING FOR OUR CHOSEN UNIQUE MAGAZINE TO ACHIEVE, AS WE WANT IT TO BE ORIGINAL AND BE BASED FOR A TARGET AUDIENCE OF PEOPLE WHO ENJOY FILM ITSELF AND WANT TO READ ABOUT THE FILM . COMBINED WITH ‘ELECTRIC SHEEP’ WE ARE HOPING TO CREATE A NEW LOOK AND IMPROVED LOOK ON INDEPENDENT FILMS GENERAL AND ALSO SPECIFICALLY INDEPENDENT HORROR FILMS.