Ancillary Product (Research) Specific Genre Magazine Analysis 1

Alongside making a poster for my ancillary product, I also have to make a magazine cover to advertise my upcoming documentary. Using magazines such as real life magazines and national geographic will help for this, because they tend to advertise up and coming documentaries. This supports the documentary we are making because we would need some sort of promotion, and these ancillary products would help with this.
For my first analysis, I am going to analyse a magazine cover from the magazine 'National Geographic', a world renowned company, and this would be the sort of advertisement we would like for our product.

Firstly, this magazine cover has a lot of emphasis within the typography. The titles, 'National Geographic', a universally recognisable title, is at the top of the cover, fitting magazine cover conventions. The white title matches the colour schemes of the icebergs within the focal image of the cover. There is also a large title saying about the 'big thaw', and this sets the theme of nature within the documentary magazine cover. The main part of a documentary is within the title; to document something. This magazine cover advertises the things it is going to document within the magazine, and this sets the standards for what the audience can expect within the magazine. The colour scheme is mainly white and blue, which matches the sea within the focal image. These colours all going together matches the conventions of a magazine colour, and then surrounded and bordered by the conventional and distinctive yellow that you tend to see within national geographic magazine covers.
The focal image within this magazine cover shows some icebergs, with the blue sea and a person overlooking the situation. This focal image goes slightly against archetypal magazine features, because it doesn't feature on key thing, but a few different aspects that are all eye catching. This shows that there is a wide range of things within the magazine that are eye catching and can entertain the audience.
Overall, this poster is very eye catching for a variety of reasons that contribute; the colour scheme, eye-catching titles and the one person being a key focus of attention. This is good for a documentary magazine cover because it catches the eye of the audience, advertises lots of the information which is inside, and still doesn't look over done.