Magazine Inspiration

On the right is mine and Alex's film magazine cover and on the left is a previous issue of Empire which is endorsing the film Public Enemy. The reason I have put this up is to show where we have got the inspiration for our magazine from. for example as you may see in the public enemy poster they have used the smoke effect in the bottom left and we have taken that into consideration in our magazine cover . The smoke effect is effective because it adds the effect that the hero is in his personal film and connects the readers to the film and makes them feel like they are part of it . We have also used the effect of the gun in the picture . This is good because it shows to the audience that this person means business and without even seeing the film you are able to get a grasp for the character's persona and also get an idea for the genre of the film.

Another thing that we have taken inspiration from the magazine is the way we have put subheadings within the magazine for example the way we have included our special features such as Hugh Jackman back in action we have included our own subheadings but taken inspiration from the original . We have also taken a conventional method for the design of our cover we have included our slogan of our most explosive issue ever. We also have positioned Alex over the P in EMPIRE to show the bond between the character and the magazine .