Magazine Front Cover Research

As part of the distribution stage of making a film, you need to advertise so that the film gets publicity. This includes magazines doing articles on your movie. In this case I am going to design a front cover for the magazine named 'EMPIRE'. Before I can do this I must do research into the conventions and typical design methods of magazine front covers. To start with I have analysed two magazines from different genres which are below.

Below is the next analysis of an EMPIRE film magazine (using Emaze) which directly relates to my magazine as I will be imitating an EMPIRE magazine.