MAGAZINE COVERS:

This post is to explore what similarities/differences movie magazine covers have and how I can incorporate that into my own cover for this years auxiliary task.

One of the biggest ways of advertising films in the media industry is through magazines and more specifically covers. The most well-known film magazines are Total Film and Empire.

 

In majority of the covers, the main protagonist of the film being advertised is in the centre of the cover, which is a key detail to remember when designing and producing my own cover.

In these magazines the actors featuring are popular in the sense that most of the regular readers would recognise them. However, I will not be using well-known actors for my film. Both magazines tend to use only one character on their covers unless for example with 'The Expendables' for The A-Team, as they are more recognisable as a group and come more of a 'package' rather than one character dominating the film or being portrayed as the main protagonist. It always depends of the context of the film, the audience it is aimed at and the way it is being advertised.