Analyzing Magazine Front covers.

Wolverine Front Cover Empire Magazine

Professional Look:There is a running theme throughout all of these magazine front covers. The date, price, bar code as well as the empire magazine.

Title and Tag Line:Empire magazine title is big and bold. It stands out to the audience on the shop shelf, which makes the audience want to buy the magazine even more because it is eye catching. Furthermore the tag line speaks for its self, Wolverine is a big character in the X-men, as this film was such a big film this magazine automatically has its own audience, drawing more attention and sales to the magazine.

Central imageEverything on the magazine looks to have been built around the central image, therefore the character stands out to the audience. The character looks angry and is in an aggressive stance, as though he would like revenge against something or someone.

Text around the Main FigureThe text around the figure tells us about the same genre of film as the picture is, which is action. This portrays the main idea of the film of wolverine.

Hellboy 2 Magazine Front cover

Empire Title:The title relates to film, “hell” boy relate to fire death, As well as standing out to the audience.

The Main Picture:The character in the center of the picture looks threatening to the audience, the character also like the wolverine front cover wants a fight or revenge you can tell this from his facial expression as well as his hand stance.

Simple color scheme:Some of the color scheme relates to the film, black, red relates to the film of hell boy. As well as that the white writing on top of the black, makes it stand to the audience like the title of the magazine.

Batman Joker Magazine Front Cover

The color scheme:The color schemes of green and black relate to the color scheme of the film. The green and the black make the front cover look more sinister as well as scary.

The main image:The image when you pick up the magazine, looks like the joker is looking straight into the audiences eyes. This makes the audiences scared and feel uncomfortable.

Empire title:The empire magazine title, glows and stands out to the audience. On the shelf with the other magazines this would stand out to the audience, increasing sales.

Big Names:All of these big names on the magazine front covers, also stand out to the audience. This also makes us want to see what else is in the magazine and here about the big Hollywood names.