Movie Magazine Research

For our magazine front cover I have looked at a range of movie magazine front covers and i have come across some common aspects that we can incorporate in our magazine front cover.

• Each magazine has a main image from a new cinema/DVD release on the front cover.


• The magazines name is in bold font at the top the the magazine cover.



• Each magazine has a very similar layout, the main image in the middle, the name of the new release they are reviewing placed in the centre at the bottom of the cover.



• Other articles that are featuring in the magazine are shown in text at the sides and are in similar font and color to the main text showing a consistent house style.

While I was researching movie magazines I had a look on google and at the magazines at home and at school and was inspired by these magazine covers from Empire magazine

The main inspiration I took from these magazine covers is the banner from the bottom of the cover.

I also tried to find movie magazines that have used an image from a period drama as the main image on the cover of their magazine. All I found was a foreign edition of Empire magazine shown here: