Most of the magazine covers we looked at for film magazines had very set conventions and features that need to be included to make it both aesthetic and practical. We looked at "Empire" magazine mainly, as this is a world renowned and respected movie magazine. Some of the features that we saw on the magazine covers included:
- a big bold picture of a character from a film (one that is heavily featured in this magazine issue) that stood out, and even covered the title of the magazine in some cases, to further emphasize the importance of the character's image. On this example it is Hannibal Lector from The Silence of the Lambs. For most fil;ms the protagionist is normally on the cover, but as this is a hoorror film and heavilybased on darj and scary themes, it is more effective to have the antagonist in the cover. This is what we will do on our cover.
- Title of the film in big bold letters (usually red to match the theme of the magazine) but in this case was in a sort of off white colour at te bottom of the page.
- Smaller images down the side of the page that showed other films that were being featured inside- although this specific cover did not have
- a small caption for each photo that is there to intrigue potential readers in to buying the magazine.
- An eye catching tagline at the very top of the cover that was there to catch the attention of potential buyers. On this example is says "the 500 greatest movies of all time"
- Empire web address was featured on most of the newer examples- ("empireonline.com")
- Less importantly for aesthetic reasons, and more for practical business reasons, they all had a barcode and price in a very small print usually near the bottom corners of their cover. Makes people instantly know how much they will have to pay for it.
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