Thursday, 20 November 2014

Third Magazine Analysis


The magazine horror hound is a UK horror magazine that is sold bi-monthly. It contains information on everything horror such as new films and DVD’s, games and comic books also coming out and also interviews with some of horror’s famous stars.
The masthead of the magazine is in red and bold with a white footprint to the left of it which is an ideology of the horror genre as looks like a supernatural footprint.
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 a shot from the film so people who enjoy the film will read the magazine to find out more about it.
The price of the magazine is £3.89 and for a bi-monthly magazine this is a good price as if it came out fortnightly would be less than a pound 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 bottom 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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