My production piece is made up of a front and back cover of a horror genre DVD cover and the other one is a special edition cover for a box set. For the layout of the actual DVD cover i made sure that red, black and white were distinctive colours on the DVD cover. These colours are sharp and quite bold which symbolise various codes and conventions for the horror genre. Black symbolising darkness in the narrative; red symbolising violence, meanwhile white symbolises the innocence of someone being destroyed. White also represents the psychological side of the genre.
I used 'The Nightmare of Elm Street' DVD cover as inspiration and 'Saw' special edition case also. Because both films are slasher films, they have the sign of gore showing on their DVD covers. As a result of this i could only use them as templates for my own DVD cover.
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