The document analyzes two film posters and two magazine covers. For the film posters, it notes the importance of the tagline, actor names, main image, and title standing out. The magazine covers effectively use layout, imagery, and headlines to promote featured content and incentivize purchase. The conclusion emphasizes making text, images, colors, titles, and slogans clear and attention-grabbing for promotional materials.

1. Analyzing Film Posters &
Magazine Covers

2. Lawless Poster Analysis
Tag Line
Actors Names
Main Image
Film Name
Quote from a
review

3. The tag line might make people want to
watch the film because of its short
snappiness. Also if people like the sound
then they are more likely to want to
watch it. It also sums the film up of what
it is about, Brothers, Gangsters and
Heroes. The text is also in Bold so it then
stands out, it is also a good colour and
stands out on the colour of the clouds.
The next thing down on the page is the credits of some of the actors that
were involved in the film. This might make the people looking at it want to
watch it because of the previous films that this actor has done. E.G. Shia
LaBeouf, he did the films of transformers. Again like the tag line text it is
quite bold and stands out a lot so that people can read it from a distance.
This quote of a review from a magazine, this is likely to have a good impact on the
film because of the fact that if people read this then they are most likely to go and
see the film because it has had good reviews. Most people go and see films after
they have heard good reviews so this may make people see it.

4. As you can see the main image takes up
most of the poster and is big enough to see
from a distance, this also shows most of the
main characters. Both of these things will
make the poster stand out and people will
recognize the actors when they see the
poster. Even though the poster has dark
colours the characters stand out because of
the way the clouds are formed around them
and the light shining towards them.
This title stands out from a mile on the background on the colours of the
poster, it is a bold red font that is easy on the eyes as well.
All of these features go well together well and the final product is good as it makes everything stand out and and
with useful text on there that is more likely to make you go and see the final product.

5. Seven Poster Analysis
Actors Names
Main image
Another slogan
Film Title
Film Slogan

6. The actors names and pictures are part of the main image
as well, as you can see in this image it has their names
and then the pictures beneath. This makes for easy
recognition by people who might want to see the film, or
want to now they have seen this poster.
Because these two are, two of the main characters it
makes sense to put them on the poster, and when you
see this you will know they are two of the main
characters as they aren't going to put on some one that
only appears once.
The two actors names are in a plain standard font but this
looks good as it is easy to read and see from a
distance, the colour used also helps it stand out on the
background that it is one.
The title stands out quite a lot and and this is because
of the colour of the text, with it being in white it stands
out on the dingy brown background, and the font is
good because it isn't plain, but looks like it has been
written and easy to read.

7. The slogan is really in two parts, the first part down the middle and
the second part under the film title. I would say they are the same
slogan but in two parts because of the fact that they lead on from
one another. The first part reveling the seven sins and then the
slogan underneath.
The font used looks good and is clear as well as the striking lines
that are crossing out different words, this looks good and
professional, but the text can be a little hard to read from a
distance, and from here the bottom part of the slogan at the end
can in different lighting be hard to read.
Overall I think the poster isn’t that good because of the fact that the slogan would be hard to
read from a distance and the faces wouldn't’t either from a distance, but the font of the title
and the actors is of good size and colour to stand out which makes up for it a bit.

8. 1st Empire Magazine Analysis
The phrase “The Dark knight
The magazine name is the biggest returns ….” might also make
text on the screen and it stands out people want to by this. This text
as well even though you cannot see also stands out on the dark
the whole of the title. background.
If you look closely you will see that
the background is the buildings in
a city giving it a better graphical
look, not just plain gray. The layout of this magazine is
good because the title is clear and
easily visible as well as the main
The main image is of the man and is article in this magazine Inception.
smaller in proportion to the text, this The other articles are around the
is for a bigger impact on the front man and spaced out well.
cover.
As well as this there is an
The main selling point of this incentive to buy this magazine
particular magazine is the film that it with dream access to a movie
talks about Inception. This is the event of 2010.
main thing that people might buy the
magazine for.

9. 2nd Empire Magazine Analysis
The layout of this cover is good as The title of the magazine is Empire
everything is spaced out nicely and and is easily visible and
they have used the white space well. recognizable even though Tony
The colours used on this cover are Starks head is blocking the P and I.
good and don’t clash. The graphical The whole text stands out because
image choosing your cover could also the text is white on a mainly red
make this magazine a special edition background.
that even more people would want.
This graphical image of choosing
The main text that is roughly your own magazine cover of a
center to the magazine is The different avenger might make the
Avengers, This may be another reader buy them all, this also help
reason why people would by this them get sales because there will
magazine. be different avengers that different
people like.
They have also added other The main image of Tony Stark is
images to the front cover to get bigger in comparison to the
more people to read the magazine and text, this is so that
magazine, this is because not he stands out. From this image you
everyone will be interested in can tell the main article will involve
the avengers. These images are Iron Man somehow.
smaller because they aren't as
big a stories or articles as the
avengers article in this
magazine.

10. Conclusion:
• In my product I will insure that in my
magazine;
- The colours wont clash
- That the main image takes up a lot of the
cover in comparison to the text
- That the title of the magazine and main
article are easily visible from a distance
- That the colours will catch the readers
attention

11. Conclusion Part 2
• In my Poster I will make sure that I include;
- A coloured font that will grab the readers
attention
- Images of the main characters in the film
- There will be credits of the actors involved
- A slogan that is part of the film/story line