The document discusses a magazine cover for "The Dark Knight" that served as inspiration. It notes the use of varied fonts, with the Joker's name in larger green font. Color themes of green and pink were used to match the character. The cover also included information on other films using larger "plus" text. A quote was felt to provide an opinion and tagline for the film. When designing their own magazine cover, the document discusses following another cover's example of placing the release date by the barcode instead of over the "M" in the title.

1. MORE ON MAGAZINES

2. When looking for inspiration in today’s
lesson for cover lines, I noticed ‘ The
Dark Knight’ magazine cover was very
striking in terms of it’s appearance.
Firstly I noticed the variety in fonts on
the cover, there was 3 different fonts
all together. This made me aware that
when it comes to editing the magazine
we will have to use a variety of fonts
also. The tagline ‘Meet the joker’ was
very interesting, the word ‘JOKER’ was
in a much larger font to the rest of the
text and was in a different colour of
green which stood out from the rest.
This is because it’s the character’s
name and serves as importance to
helping the audience identify with who
he is.
This magazine cover also has
reoccurring colour themes of
green which is spaced out on
the cover and also a little bit of
pink too. This matches the main
character’s clothing in the
image and is helping create a
brand identity for the film.
This magazine includes
other information from
other films also and uses
the word ‘plus’ in a
bigger font to draw the
audience’s attention in.
This cover therefore
offers a variety to the
audience of the info it
contains.
This magazine cover
also includes a quote
which I felt was useful
in terms of giving an
opinion. This quote
acts like a tagline for
the film as it reveals a
small amount into the
plot and sums it up in
a short and catchy
way.

3. When editing for our
magazine today, we noticed
that EMPIRE tend to put the
release date of the
magazine where the ‘M’ is
in the mast head ‘EMPIRE’.
But as in our magazine our
character covers the ‘M’ we
were unsure of where to
put it. We found this
magazine cover which also
had this trouble and
noticeably put these dates
down by the barcode
instead. We did this as well
for our magazine.