movie magazine, front cover analysis 2

This is a magazine cover from ‘Total Film’ which follows the typical codes and conventions of magazines by using a masthead, sell lines, sky line and bar code to sell and promote the magazine to catch the audience’s eye. This magazine and the theme of it has been well thought out and planned to make it all in keeping with each other, making for a very appealing magazine cover. The colour scheme of this cover is quite bright with the white, yellow, purple, burgundy, brown and orange these clashing colours make for an eye catching cover, but they have been used subtle and in small doses so they don’t over power the magazine and complement each other. Using these colours fits in with the theme of the magazine and the photo and it is featuring the ‘Alice in wonderland’ film and focuses on ‘The Mad Hatter’ character which is a weird wonderful film and so is this character so this colour scheme enforces this, making it very eye catching which is what this character and the film is, creating a theme. There a few different fonts on this cover but they are all quite similar creating a smart, neater look. But it’s been changed up a bit by changing the colours and sizes of the fonts to show importance. The creating and editing process of this magazine looks quite complicated as the background is behind and the subject is part of this background and the masthead is on top of this background but under the subject and the sell lines are on top of everything creating a 3D look making it look very professional which appeals more to the audience. The photo used on this cover follows the conventions of a magazine cover as it’s used as a background and it’s a medium shot of a subject featuring in the magazine in the centre of the magazine. This photo shows the mad hatter from Alice in wonderland in his costume with his make up on holding a rabbit which adds to the weird but wonderful theme of this magazine which fits in with the theme of the feel, making it all in keeping and link together. Also by the way the photo, background, writing and masthead has been used makes it looks like the subject is jumping out creating a focal point, he is also looking directly at the camera creating a personal feel, catching the audience’s eye. Few sell lines have been used on this cover to out more focus on the image, colour scheme and theme but the sell lines have been used well to give the audience enough information on a front cover and by changing fonts, sizes and colours makes it look neater and less busy and messy showing the thought behind it which has been well executed.