Monday, 7 March 2016

Ancillary Product (Research) Specific Genre Magazine Analysis 3

My last magazine cover analysis will be a magazine cover that isn't a documentary, in order to show the variation within magazine covers and this research will allow me to broaden my knowledge of the conventions of general magazine covers. My choice for my third and final analysis is a magazine called 'total film', and they are advertising the film Star Trek, which was released in 2009, so fairly recent.
Firstly, the thing that is eye catching is the elements of red within this film magazine cover. The colours of the man in the focal image is black and white. Whilst that is fairly eye catching on its own as it features a conventionally handsome male who is the lead actor of the film, the main eye catching thing about this magazine cover is the red features of the typography. This works well because everything else is in monochrome shades, so the one bright colour makes you more prone to want to look at the cover and therefore look more into the films being advertised.
The typography of this magazine cover is also eye-catching: lots of the words, such as 'the boldest and coolest film of 2009', makes the audience want to read more. If a film is advertised as being the coolest film, it is something people might want to see because they want to keep up with the conventions of being 'cool and mainstream' within society.
The main focal image is eye-catching because it contains the conventions of being a photo of a main actor within the film. The jawline of this male is particularly defined and this helps to accentuate the film being advertised.


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