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.