magazine research

 Today i started looking at how magazines have advertised certain films. this is because we will be designing our own magazine front cover. we will be looking at the codes and conventions of the magazines and apply them to ours.

This magazine cover is from Empire magazine promoting Terminator salvation movie. The use of the main image is good on this as this is what we decided on how we want ours to be with only half a face showing on the front cover. The eye contact from the actor, Christian Bale works well as it really captures the readers attention. the use of the shadow over one side of his face lets also know that theres a dark side to the film.The use of dark colours such as the black and red give the film a real action blood and violence feel, this relates to Terminator so we will have to make sure our use of colours relate to our film. also having advertisements and taglines also help with making the front cover appeal to an audience, and these are all things that we will include on our front cover.

This is another of Empires magazine covers, this time promoting, The Dark Knight. even thought this is not a horror film the layout of the magazine cover would make the reader think this is a scary twisted film. the use of just The Jokers face on the black background makes it stand out. the eye contact is also good as it is connecting with the audience, looking into his eyes is intense but captivating. this would be a good feature for us to use. sticking to a main color scheme also works well as here they have used green and black. For our magazine to look real we will have to follow these conventions.