Film magazine covers

FILM MAGAZINE COVERS

To identify codes and conventions used within the film magazines

Conventions of magazines Technical terms What creates meaning? Masthead Cover lines Cover stories Pictures and captions Route of the eye Principle of thirds Pull quotes flash Kicker and explanatory text U.S.P

Language and register Mise en scene- Position,

pose, costume, eye contact /gaze, facial expression

Camera angle Font style, size, colour Revealing genre Quotes/links to the film

Conventions of magazines

Layout (Rule of thirds) (camera angle) (text) Image- Direct pose? Sexual/seductive/aggressive

Text- Style of text and impact of this Audience profile- who is the audience for this

magazine and how do we know? Ideology- What ideas is the magazine portraying? Representation- what representations is the

magazine giving of itself and of others? What representation is this giving about the film

•Language and register•Mise en scene- •Position, pose, costume, eye contact /gaze, facial expression•Camera angle •Font style, size, colour •Revealing genre•Quotes/links to the film

Flash / button Skyline /selling line

Explanatory text

MainCover line /kicker

Main image

Model credit

Pull quote

Masthead

Coverlines

Continuity of colour throughout film, poster and magazine

Style of writing that is reflective of the joker’s actual writing that again we see in poster, website, film and magazine

Again consistency in the colour scheme which represents the character.

Play on words with the tagline

Direct mode of address within character

Character handwriting/sense of realism

Appealing to fans with the collectable covers and asking them to choose a side- Awareness of target audience

Lack of other coverlines to

Show the severity of the

Situation Still using the joker to represent

Heath Ledger- linking into awareness

of target audience and how they see

the character- as the joker

Play on words including the title of the film

These two words create meaning on their own due to the use of different colour text- Bloody brilliant

Clear awareness of target audience

Comic book style in its pictures in the background

Paint effect acts as an example of continuity and branding, house style

Masthead altered

Secondary images within the selling line/skyline

Tag line

Focus on the picture to create meaning for the audience

Model credit

Reliance of audience awareness

Use of colourAlso similar idea of launching the magazine in the same way that the golden ticket was launched

Different use of mast head

Choice of font style