The document discusses the purpose and conventions of film magazine covers. It explains that film magazines aim to influence viewers to watch films and educate audiences about the filmmaking process. Magazine covers typically feature a mid-shot celebrity image as the main focal point, with the magazine masthead and cover lines promoting additional articles. Conventions include using direct gaze in images to engage readers, prominent mastheads, and featuring the celebrity from the cover image in a lead article. Covers prioritize the main image to attract fans, the masthead to identify the publication, and highlighting an inside feature story.

1. Assignment 9: Magazine Cover
Research Part B
By Noor Naoum

2. Vogue

3. Empire

4. Q Music

5. Total film

6. Dance
Magazine

7. What is the purpose of film
magazines?
• The purpose of film magazines is to influence people into
wanting to watch films but also it is aimed at big movie fans
who enjoy watching films and are not passive of
mainstream films. They also enable people to understand
more about the film industry in terms of how a film is
made. This educates the audience and allows them to have
a better understanding of how films are made.
• They are used when films are being marketed a good film
magazine can attract a wider audience (globally) and can
result in a mass audience.

8. Where are films available?
• Film magazines are usually available in book stores such as
Waterstones. However because the internet has become
such an active process about knowing things around the
world magazines can be found online by downloading
applications or even finding them in a PDF form on the
internet.

9. What is the typical size for
magazines?
• The main standard magazine size is usually 8
3/8” x 10 7/8.
• However depending on how you access the
magazine it may come in a different size
online due to how you access it.

10. How are magazine covers attractive to
the audience? Does the attraction
differ than that of the film?
• Magazine covers can possibly attract a wide
audience because it enables the audience to have
a better understanding of the film process and
the hard work and effort put towards the film. It
can also give the audience an insight on how the
marketing works.

11. What are the conventions of
magazine covers?

12. Main Image
Both have a direct
gaze, this allows the
audience to feel
more engaged.
Both magazines’ main images
consist of mid shots with less detail
in the background. This gives the
celebrity more of a focus meaning
that they are the most important
image.

13. Mast Head
Both magazines have
outstanding head
masts in order to
allow the readers to
see the company
name of the
magazine.

14. Feature Article
The feature article
is usually based
around the
around from the
main image.

15. Cover Lines
Cover lines portray
the rest of the other
articles within a
magazine and
sometimes can have a
catchy font and the
text standing out in a
different colour. This
attracts the audience
because it enables to
understand the
different aspects
included within the
magazine and they
judge whether it is of
their interest.

16. Colour Palette
The mast head is
usually in bold
and in a different
colour. This
enables the mast
head to stand
out.
The colour of the
text is usually
dependable
however sometimes
some text needs to
stand out so there
is a dramatic colour
change within text.

17. Similarities and differences between
magazines
• Some magazines have a limited amount of text for example
a dance magazine. This is because the main image is usually
a long shot a should be the main focus.
• The colour palette can have an effect because some text
becomes more outstanding than others.
• Most magazines have the direct gaze depending on what
the magazine is based on and who it is aimed at.

18. What do some magazine covers
prioritize?
• The magazine cover very important because the
audience need to distinguish which magazine it is
and what its based on. This may also be beneficial
to the institution. The main image is also
important because some audiences may be huge
fans of the celebrity on the front cover so this
allows the magazine to reach a wide audience.
The feature article is another important aspect
because it allows the audience to know what is
featured within the magazine other than the
main image.