The film magazine cover I have chosen to analyse is from
“Empire”. The masthead for this magazine is in bold red letters positioned near
the top of the magazine behind the cover picture. This cover contains a medium
long shot of Hugh Jackman in character as Wolverine from the film “X-Men”. This
immediately tells us that the main story in this particular magazine edition is
related to the film “X-Men Origins”.
There are also several cover lines on this magazine cover
starting with “X-Men Origins on set world exclusive!” This cover line
accompanies to photograph for this magazine, telling the audience more about
the big story within the magazine. The cover lines for this magazine are in black
and white, allowing the red masthead to stand out.
The price and date for the magazine is positioned above the
‘M’ in the header “EMPIRE”. It is extremely small and almost impossible to read
as the magazine designer wouldn’t want to bring the audience’s attention to the
price of the magazine.
The barcode is positioned in the bottom right corner of the
magazine cover, not taking up too much room. Keeping the barcode as small as
possible and in the corner allows more room for things that the audience is actually
interested in looking at. The barcode is just for purchase use.
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