Side-By-Side Magazine Cover Analysis

My magazine cover compares stylistically with this edition of Entertainment Weekly in many ways. The image I used for the cover is a mid-shot of the main character Leo looking serious and ‘broken’ in a sense because he has sadness in his eyes, which gives clues as to the film’s narrative. It is a typical image that would be seen on real-life magazines and it is similar to the horror magazine covers because of the low key lighting and plain black background. For the masthead, I used a simplistic sans serif font called ‘Verdana’ as it makes it stand out from the rest of the text even though it isn’t the largest text on the page. I also used white text consistently throughout the magazine cover as I felt it contrasted nicely with the black background and stands out well. The headline for the film ‘Broken Mind’ is the same font I used for the poster. This helps combine my promotional campaign together and I like that the text is also ‘broken’ as it isn’t in a straight line. I chose to use grey because both black and white didn’t work as the other colours on the page are black and white and I didn’t want there to be too much of a contrast. Beside the headline, I added a little description of the content relating to the film which says ‘Oliver Butler talks playing mental ex-cop in the new anticipated horror film ‘Broken Mind’.’ This was influenced by the front cover of an edition of ‘Entertainment Weekly’, and this is something they do consistently on most of their magazine covers. The style of the magazine cover is similar to that of popular film magazine ‘Empire’ which was my inspiration for this ancillary product.