Thursday, 17 October 2013
movie magazine, front cover analysis 1
This
magazine cover from ‘Empire’ follows all the codes and conventions of a
magazine cover using a masthead, sell lines, barcode, sky line and extra
information to catch the audiences eye and pull them in, all being in its
typical place on magazine covers, following the conventions. This magazine
cover is well thought out and planned with the image and look of the whole
thing, all in keeping with each other. The colour scheme of this magazine cover
is very bright and clashing with the green, purple, red, white, black and dark
grey making it very contrasting and eye catching. But by using these colours in
keeps with the theme of the magazine, this being batman and focusing more of
the joker a character from the film and all of these colours represent this
character as they are the colours he wears, so this is a very appealing
magazine cover to the target audience of this magazine as they will know why
about the colour scheme. Creating and editing this process is quite complicated
as the background is behind everything and the subject is part if this
background and the masthead is on top of the background but under the subject
and the sell lines are on top of everything which creates a 3D look to the
magazine, it also makes it look very professional, as it looks like a lot of
time and effort has been put into the making of it. There are also a lot of
different fonts on this magazine cover, at least 5 different ones nearly a
different font for each section of writing, adding to the busyness of the magazine
and clashes and adds contrast to it, but this also fits in with the theme of it
linking everything together to create a wild, crazy look which will also appeal
to the target audience. Few sell lines have been used on this magazine cover as
too many would over power the cover with all the colours and fonts and sizes
going on it would be slightly too much but enough information is given out
through this magazine cover to intrigue the audience to buy it. The photo plays
a big part in this magazine cover as the subject jumps out on the page being in
front of the background and masthead and behind the sell lines, and the subject
is looking directly at the camera which adds a personal feel to the magazine
making the audience feel like he is looking at them, again tempting them to buy
it.
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