EMPIRE Magazine Front Cover - Badge of Dishonour

After analysing magazine covers including the magazine 'EMPIRE' I was prepared to create my own version of an 'EMPIRE' magazine cover that featured our film 'Badge of Dishonour'.  I used software on our school computers called Serif PagePlus to create the magazine and edit the photo. I cropped the photo I choose to use from my photo shoot to a close up of the detectives upper body with the gun prominent and the main focus in the shot. I choose to make the photo grey scale with an increased exposure and contrast. The cover models head overlaps the masthead which is a common convention in all magazine genres. I chose to have the tradition red EMPIRE masthead because it acts as a good secondary colour for the whole magazine as it contrasts with the grey background. The Badge of Dishonour logo is pinned across the centre and onto the cover model so that users relate it to the cover photo. The red puff in the bottom left overlaps the 'Badge of Dishonour' logo slightly so that it has a sticker effect. The rest of the text on the cover is fairly minimal because is is how the recent articles of EMPIRE have been in recent months.