This document analyzes magazine covers for three films: Star Wars: The Force Awakens, Gone Girl, and Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice. For Star Wars, the cover features the main character Po Dameron in traditional Star Wars attire with X-Wings and droids in the background to evoke nostalgia. The Gone Girl cover depicts the premise of a dead wife and seemingly happy husband to convey the dark comedy and murder mystery elements without detail. The Batman v Superman cover prominently features the titular opposing characters torn between each other in black and blue to represent their conflict.

1. Analysis of Three Examples-
Magazine Covers

2. Star Wars: The Force Awakens
• This was a part of
a line of character
posters for the
release of Star
Wars.
• The subject of the
poster can be seen
front and center of the
poster. We also find
out his name is Po
Dameron upon further
investigation.
• This cover is meant to
evoke feelings of
nostalgia towards the
franchise. They achieve
this by placing him in
traditional star wars attire
with star wars vehicles
such as x-wings in the
background. We can even
see a droid in the lower
corner upon deeper
inspection.
• Considering that Star
Wars is such a major
franchise, they have
relied mainly on
imagery to identify
the film and put the
title in the lower
corner.
• We can assume his
character is an X-wing pilot
considering the props and
background that are used.
They manage to get this
information across through
simple visuals.

3. Gone Girl
• This magazine cover
is for David Fincher’s
‘Gone Girl’ adaption.
• We can see the premise
for the film in a bold way.
The wife is clearly dead
and the husband appears
oddly calm about it. The
cover doesn't’t go into
detail about the scandal
aspects to the story but it
instead gives away an
effective amount of
information.
• Fincher’s unique dark
comedy can be seen in
this cover. The husband is
laying with the corpse of
his wife on a metal slab
as if it was his bed. We
can also see that the
husband looks happy
with her death.
• The film focuses on
the success of it’s
director, cast and
book equivalent.
This means that
fans of any of
these factors can
find a reason to.
• The red font of the
Gone Girl title is
made to stand out
more with the
bold red font
used. This also
lends itself to the
murder conspiracy
genre as red offers
connotations to
blood.

4. Batman V. Superman: Dawn of Justice
• This cover is
promoting Zack
Snyder’s Batman V.
Superman film.
• The two characters
are made the focus
of the cover as they
are mentioned by
name and stand
side by side.
• We can see the conflict
between the two
characters in the cover
as the middle of the
page is torn and the
characters are parallel
to each other.
• The film promotion
changes the layout and
themes of the magazine.
Other headlines are
referred to as a conflict.
E.g.. ‘Tom Hardy v. Tom
Hardy’ when referring to
his film ‘Legend’.
• The two characters are
presented as contrasts
of each other with the
use of black and blue.
This shows more
examples of the clash.