Analysis of Film Magazine front covers

The poster seen above is of an issue of Sight and Sound where instead of the main character being the U.S.P and the main image, it is the director or producer of the film. This is something that his given inspiration for my magazine front cover as I plan to have an image of me the director of my trailer on the front cover. The bland, plain background is simple yet effective as it gives a nice cool, classy look to the magazine. Again perhaps I will look into having a relatively bland background so that all the attention is put onto the unique selling point of the magazine front cover, that is to say, the director or...me. The text seen above gives a rather urban look with serif fonts being used, this is something I will aim to use on my magazine front cover as the theme of my trailer is a gritty, low-budget British one. Moreover, the colour palette again resembles that Britishness with blue, red and white being used which represents the colours of the Union Jack. Finally, the masthead with the bright yellow and with it being present on the left third of the page, is something that will make it stand out when lined out on the shelves. I will therefore try and use a technique similar to this when I create my masthead.