Research and planning: film magazine anaylsis 2

This a magazine cover of Empire magazine with main focus film being 'The girl with the dragon tattoo'. The genre of the magazine focuses completely on films and uses conventions like a masthead, a slug line, cover lines, a barcode, issue number and pricing to show this.

The genre of this cover related to the film show, and has a clear element of horror. The representation of the cover shows two character from the film, suggesting that these characters are and equal focus of the film. The colours and clothing they are wearing are all black showing a dark theme to the film. The colour theme for this cover shows use of many colours including, blue, red, pink, yellow and white, which doesn't conform to the usual three colour magazines usually use. The main colours of this cover in my opinion are black and blue, this is because the costumes are black and the background is very dark with elements of black, and with a slight blue tint. This is relevant in showing the genre of film to be very dark showing the genre being a horror/action. The cover line which is the most noticeable and of main focus in apparent due to the larger size, the bold font and the white colouring. This applies to the typical conventions of magazines, making the cover photography known with a bold cover line. The age this cover attracts i think is a 12A, because there is no explicit content, and no indication from the cover that there is anything inappropriate for certain ages. The actual film was rated with an age 18 certificate, meaning the film is more relevant to an older audience than the magazine story. My own magazine cover will be relevant to aged 12, although the actual film will be rated at 15, this is because images are less inappropriate in comparison to film.