Magazine Cover Research Followed by our Magazine Cover

Magazine Research

Empire is a well known movie magazine and as it is so popular we thought we would look at there cover to see what makes it so appealing. To begin with they have filled the page with a variety of topics, the big bold statements they use to do this draws the audience in, and hopefully they find the magority of the topics worth reading, they have also used a variety of topics on the front page to appeal to as big an audience as possible.

                                            

It uses one large image of the green light actor from the film Harry Potter films, as a block buster mega movie, they automaticallly know that it has a very large audience they can target. They also know as the Harry Potter films have developed, the age catergory that are watching the films has varied also, from children catching up on the first films, to fifteen-adults watching the newest ones out. This also creates a big targer audience for the magazine to targer.

Empire has also used a few exclamatives such as the word MASSIVE and BLOODY HELL to attract the audience and create a imagery and get the audience excited, the audience will know be throughly intrigued and will want to dive into the magazine to see what these topics are about.

As we think they have used these key concepts to create a top selling magazine, we will also be basing out magazine cover on these concepts, using a large intriguing main image to attract the audience, which will have short exciting snip-its of information around it. Having a big bold title, to grab the audience attention as they browse over the mazines I think this is going to be the best recipe for our magazine cover.

Our Magazine

First Attempt

This is our first attempt of a magazine cover, as you can see it looks very unrealistic. The attention has been taken away from the main image which is a problem, the attention has been taken away because of the big dark boxes, which are very bold and look out of place for a film magazine cover.

This is our film magazine, its is called "TOTALLY HOLLYWOOD", we called it this as it all about film and the industry. We used a big bold font, which stand out as quite fancy, the colouring is slightly different to grab the audiences attention as the look for a film magazine.

We used the red and black faded colour all over the magazine to keep the continuity flowing, we didn't want to overload the the cover with too many different font colours so we just stuck with a few simple colours which contrasted with there surrounding. We triend to use the space as best as possible, we did this by using the bite size topics the fill some space and to grab the audience attention. We used some much smaller images aswell to attract an audience the main image might not to appeal to. This way we are reaching out to as many people as possible.

As the main image is the one we are trying to really grab the audiences attention with we stuck it bang in the middle. We also placed a large black box at the bottom of the image which stands out, with big bold writing which draws you straight in, giving a small bit of information about the image, this hopefully makes the audience finallise there decision a buy the magazine.



Final Piece