Movie Magazine Front Covers Analysis

The text of the title for Empire and Prometheus is identical to keep to the theme of the movie. In this way the title of the movie is not prominently overruling the title of the magazine taking away from neither.

Costume is used in order to assert the science fiction genre- space suits having massive connotations of this.

Tag line used here talking of the famous movie alien to pull audience.

Actor used in the foreground here in order to use this as a pull.

Tagline used in the centre of the poster as a pull for the movie.

Set is used on the trailer here again to build the genre of science fiction film.

In this instance the actor of Iron Man 2 is while famous not the real pull for the movie rather the fictional character itself, for this reason the costume for iron man is featured on the front cover.

A sticker is used here as a pull for the movie magazine referencing it as the ‘ultimate review’

A number of smaller images are used here to sell the rest of the magazine, interestingly they are used in collaboration with text rather than just the text itself.

A tag for the movie is seen below the title selling it to the audience in as few words as possible.

Lightning is used here around the empire title, again it seems to change with the theme of the movie.

The title of the movie takes the middle ground of the poster, not dominating but obvious to the reader.

This poster has a clear colour scheme of blue, this makes it appealing to the eye. The actor Robert Downey Jr. is clearly depicted at the forefront of the front cover, such a famous actor playing this character is appealing to film enthusiasts. It like the Empire magazine also uses smaller images at the top in order to pull readers perhaps not interested in Sherlock to read the rest of the magazine. The tag line of “world exclusive” also is used in the centre of the magazine to pull in readers as they are aware that what they will read inside can only be found with total film. On this poster the punctuation of an exclamation mark is used in the titles of all the additional articles. Perhaps this is done to pull the readers eye to it, meaning they will be more likely to read the magazine not only for Sherlock Holmes but for the magazine in general. Furthermore an almost ‘click bait’ type article is featured at the top of the magazine: “10 coolest movies” being made is talked about, such a tag is a pull to readers and film enthusiasts.

Colour again is used here this time the theme of green. Again the style of the movie magazine title remains the same just the colour changes. This shows me that the movie magazine brand is less important than the stars and movie displayed. Again the largest star of the movie takes the foreground, the focus on the actor rather than the setting of the movie. She is dressed in costume as seen previously. To encourage readers to read further we also see smaller images below, interestingly imagery seems to be the pull of these magazines which makes sense as fans of film can be appealed to in this way.

Again the actor and costume dominates the movie magazine cover, in this instance the effect of rain is used to bring interest to the image. This appears to be more of a scene from the movie in this way rather than a photo shoot done with the actor. Certainly again visuals are used to pull in the reader, the actor at the foreground overpowering the setting. Costume is entirely critical in this as the costume for Batman is the character. The text is minimal like the other front covers, images of another movie used in the top right in order to pull the reader to explore the rest of the magazine.