Film Magazine Front Cover Analysis

This is a front cover of the British film magazine "Empire", and I am going to analyse aspects of the front cover and maybe adopt some of the ideas that it shows us. As you cansee straight away, the colours that are shown in the image and background correlate to the colours of the font which makes the front cover look more smart and organised; for example if the font was pink, it wouldnt go with the theme of the spiderman films which are more dark, hence why the colours potray the feeling of the film. The font consists of three colours- red, black and white; the red goes with the "Empire" name itself, and this theme goes within all the front covers of Empire, and this automatically draws the target audiences attention as it stands out from the dark background. The black and white font comes from the costume that Spiderman is wearing, and this as I explained before conotates the dark theme of the film. The image of Spiderman himself is a mid-shot which shows both his emotions and his character of spiderman as it has his web wrist out. Another good effect used in the front cover is that on the left of the background, it is much more lighter than the right side which is much darker, and this potrays that spiderman has two sides to him, one more darker than the other. In white font, it also has in big letters the word "Free", which draws attention to the audience as everyone likes something thats free; it also displays little images of the posters that are given free in the issue, which also gives the audience a taste of what they are going to get. The red + sign also draws attention as it has the blackness of spidermans suit behind him and draws attention towards the font below it.