Thursday, 20 November 2014

First Magazine Analysis

The magazine scream is a UK horror magazine that is sold bi-monthly. It contains information on everything horror such as new films and DVD’s coming out and also interviews with some of horror’s famous stars.
The masthead of the magazine is in red and streaked in some areas to portray the aspect of blood which is an ideology of the horror genre.
The main cover line on the magazine is also in a horror font and stands out in the middle of the page to grab the audience’s attention to this particular story. The main image of this magazine goes together with the main cover line; the picture is of the actor the cover line in his latest movie so fans of the film or the actor will buy this magazine to find out more about it.
The price of the magazine is £4.50 and for a bi-monthly magazine this is a good price as if it came out fortnightly would be around £1.15 which is much cheaper than most fortnightly magazines on the market. Also it says that the price of the magazine in dollars which suggests that this magazine is a global magazine as is sold in the US and the UK, gaining a wider audience.

The website at the top of the magazine shows that the magazine has cross media divergence as is available in print form and in online form, which allows fans of the horror genre to access this particular magazine from a more variety of platforms.   

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