The document summarizes the key elements found on the cover of a film magazine, including: 1) The masthead is prominently displayed at the top left of the cover to identify the magazine regardless of its orientation. 2) The main image takes up the majority of the center space and features the director of the film being profiled. 3) The main coverline identifies the film as "Submarine" and quotes the director Richard Ayoade about his debut of that film. Additional coverlines are used to promote magazine contents.

1. Masthead – This is in the top third of the magazine and
also the left third so that whichever way the magazines are
stacked you can always see the title of the magazine. The
name of the magazine isn’t as well known as others such
as Empire so the Masthead is very obviously shown and
very visible.
Barcode – On every Magazine
usually top or bottom in this case
top right.
Dateline and cover price – Also
shown on every magazine either top
third or left third so you can see the
price whichever way the magazines
are stacked.
Tagline – The tagline ‘London Film Festival Special:’ and
also ‘The International Film Magazine’ are both extra
selling points, the latter being on every cover as a sort of
catch phrase and the first being an extra selling point
specific to this magazine. The tagline on most magazines
are just an extra selling point usually saying part of what
the magazine is about or what is in it.

2. Main image – Usually in the centre of the magazine taking up the majority of the cover. In
most cases it’s an action shot from the film of the main actor(s) or a shot of the main actor(s)
from outside the film. In some other cases, and in the case of this one it is the director of the
film. In this case it’s because the director of the film is more famous than the main actors and
he was originally an actor so him directing a film is a bit different and therefore brings people
in. This shot is of the director looking at the camera in a suit in a normal pose. It reflects the
seriousness of the film he directed. He’s a fairly famous actor/director and so easily
recognized.
Main coverline – The main coverline is hard to define in this case because there’s
lots of writing around the outside of the main image and it’s hard to tell which one
is the main piece of writing at first glance. However when we look closely we know
that the film he directed is called submarine and so the main coverline is ‘Richard
Ayoade on his debut ‘Submarine’’. There are lots of other coverines around the
outside that are used as extra selling points for the magazine and tells the consumer
more about what’s inside the magazine.

3. In this third of the cover there are lots more coverlines mentioning what the magazine
contains and used as extra selling points. There’s also another part of the main image
continuing from the middle third. This cover is very simple in the fact that it only has
coverlines, a main image, a masthead and a dateline and cover price and barcode. This is
because it’s quite an indie magazine and approaches its audience in a very different way
from how empire would approach theirs.