Film Magazine Front Cover

This is a cover from a 2010 edition. Though is is similar to the Indiana Jones magazine cover it is different in a sense that rather than the characters being on the front cover it is instead the actors. Every now and again these covers are produced because the actors involved in an upcomming movie are being interviewed. Personally i like it when empire do this becasue you get to see the person behind the famous character/persona and it is a route i would not mind going down myself, the only problem we are faced with is that obviously our film is not well known so the picture on the front of the magazine cover must be our character. The conventions of this type of magazine cover are :

• Often the actors are dressed smart or casual. This indicates that really behind their famous life style they are still normal people which everyday people can relate with.
• It strips down the actor purposely to their original state (they are not in costume) so a reader is priviledge to go into their everyday life and not just see a whacky or famous character.
• Similar to many back ground colours there is a grey with a hint of black. A lot like fog. This interview and the picture would have been taken in either pre-production or during filming so the back ground remains plain.
• The actors are staring directly at the camera and if you look at their feet it seems like they are walking towards the camera suggesting because this is a sequal the journey continues.
• Most of the time when the character has a photoshoot and is put on the magazine cover they look away almost looking in the distance and appear smouldering. With an actor it is differant they look at the camera and then when the picture is put onto the cover it is asthough they are looking at the viewer which suggests that the actor is letting you into their off sreen life.

How is this example useful?

This magazine cover helps because once again it shows how important the title of a magazine is to the owner & has made me think that we as a group need to come up with a good magazine title of our own. I like the idea of just showing the main actor on the cover because it seems asthough you are let into the inner workings of an actor but as i said in this case we are unfortunatly not famous already so our character will have to be the strong center image for this magazine front cover.