Film Magazine Cover Research

Empire magazine is a popular British film magazine, that is published by Bauer Consumer Media.
As part of our research for the film magazine cover, we looked at empire magazine and closely engaged with the magazine's structural layout.
Below are some of the covers that we looked at :

The ' I AM LEGEND' magazine cover is something we hope to correlate with. We particulary like the simple backdrop with the main character at the centre of the page, which is effective in creating mystery, as no action is conveyed so the audience is left wondering what the film is about.
The consistent font style and lettering of the main bold title 'Empire', allows readers to easily identify with the magazine. Furthermore, at the bottom of this magazine, there are photo stills of other films of similar genres. So for readers who might not be particulary fond of the 'I AM LEGEND' film, may find the stills intriguing, which will ultimately attract viewers from all different areas of interest.













It seems like in most of the empire film magazines, the image takes up a vast amount of the magazine cover.The addition of stories being briefly described on the magazine cover exemplifies the interests of film fanatics. We hope to do the same for our film's magazine cover, to transfix a good solid fan base. The neo-colour highlighting is successful in drawing attention to particular film news that may affect future or present films and actors etc.