Front page research

IMAGE

Looking at the front page of my chosen magazine Empire, it is clear that there is always the main character of the film which the magazine is focused on as the main image. In my case as I want the main character of my film to be an 'evil child' the main image is going to be of a child looking very powerful and dominating the page.

This image of Ripley from the film Alien is showing her as powerful and dominating by the way she is standing, her facial expression and the gun she is holding. If this were on a magazine cover, without knowing what the film was about, you would know what sort of character she was from this image alone.
This is what I plan to do when I create my magazine cover as I would like the main image to be of a child looking 'evil' perhaps dressed in clothing similar to a character on 'Call of duty' carrying a gun or a criminal from the video game 'Grand theft auto'. This main image would give the readers a slight idea of what film the image was portraying without giving too much information away. This may attract different audiences; young teenagers who are similar age to the character and who play video games, and also parents of those children as they may be concerned about how violent video games and films can influence their children.

FRONT COVER

As I am using the Empire magazine, I will need to ensure I am keeping the house style the same and therefore using the same fonts in order for the magazine to be recognisable.

Above is the logo which empire uses on every single cover of their magazine and most of the time it is in this red colour. In order for me to match this I have done some research on the fonts used throughout the magazine. I have fount a similar one to this named 'EF Kaffeesatz' shown below.

Another font which looks similar is 'Bernard Gothic Heavy SG' which is shown below. A benefit of using this one is that you do not have to pay to download it onto the computer whereas you have to pay for 'EF Kaffeesatz'.