Magazine Frount Cover Anylsis

For my reasearch I also had to anaylsis a frount cover of a music magazine, I found that Empire magazine do not advertise horror movie, the genre which I am foucusing in. So I decided to anylis the frount cover with the joker on because it will be dark and have the same scare effect as a horror movie would. The target audience for this magazine are film fans, they chose the main image from the a big up coming film in the industy in this case it is ‘The dark knight’ so by advertising this magazine they have chose to make the main image the villian on the film, looking very serious and also staring towards you making you feel like they are looking at you.

 The mast head is the name of the magazine and is in froun of the main image, this makes the magazine more noticable by the target audience. The fount which the mast head has been wrote in sans serif, and is very bold and has a highlight of green around the edge making it very easy to stand out. This shows that it is not going to be a girlly film as it links in with the main image with the sharpe edges and how cut off the lettering is.the colours that which the text has been written in are black,green and white these have been chosen well as they go together very well making the magazine look high and perforessional as the colours look good togther. 

You will find that the magazine Empire will often use the main charcter from the film as this will then add to the advertisisment showing who the main charcters are going to be within it. ‘The jokers’ head is tilted facing down this gives off the effect also that he is trying in scare yo of be in power giving off the impress he thinks that he is better than everyone else. When you first catch the magazine it looks like ‘the joker’ is just a normal scary clown but by the lighting wehich has been used highlights his face showing us what he really does look like under the face paint and we can see hes true identiy.  

The colours of this magazine are linked with the main image using the colours of his hair and also the purple jacket which he is wearing.( Purple, Black and Green ) these are the main colours which have been used on the magazine expect the colours of the jokers light up face this attracts the attention. The main cover line on this magazine is aqbout the image but does not mentin this charcter within, the cover line is not as obvious as you would think it would be on this magazine because it almost looks like it is part of the mast head as of the colours and fount which has been used.

Plugs have been used throughout of the frount cover these are here to give you some extra informtion about what you are going to see in the magazine. Here they have put the words in white which would catch the target audience eyes they have done this with the names of films. The target audience see that these words are different from the rest of the sentence making them want to read more and look inside or buy the magazine to read the informtion as they may not be intrested in the main image film but others.