1. Year 13 Analysis of Film Magazine front cover
Name of magazine: ‘Total Film
Genre: mainstream magazine
Target reader profile: the audience
has knowledge of the film industry. Denotation Connotation
Front cover The main image on the cover is of a sci‐fi character in The tribal patter on the character’s forehead can
Main image – pose/facial an up and coming movie, he is not wearing many indicate that he belongs to a tribe or a group in the
expression/clothing/framing clothes other than a sword holder over his chest, and film, the character on the cover is not a conventional
his skin is blue with a tribal pattern on his forehead. character which connotes it is a sci‐fi film, the facial
expression the character is pulling is very direct and he
is trying to get your attention by staring into your eyes.
Masthead The masthead is in a bold font so that it is the main ‘FILM’ is in a bigger font than ‘total’ which emphasis
Typeface/size/colour focus of the page also some of the font is in the same the genre of the film also ‘total’ would not fit onto the
colour. ‘Total’ is in a smaller font in blue but is merged magazine so they have put it in ‘film’ which shows it
into ‘Film’ as there is not enough room on the page to has little importance the focus is more on the type of
fit it on. magazine it is.
Cover lines Beige and white are used as part of the colour scheme
Positioning/size/typeface/colour/ which goes with the colour of the masthead, the beige
techniques used is the colour of the titles of the articles in the
magazine.
Cover lines Short snappy puns:‐“ from Alfie to Alfred” The mode of address is that the target audience are
Subject matter/mode of intelligent and have some knowledge of what the
address/vocabulary used articles might be about
Hierarchy of text
Colour scheme The colour scheme is blue, beige and white which tires in with the colours on the character on the cover, the
colour of the masthead that is white .The blue is the dominant colour as it is the colour of the background that

2. ties in with the colour of the character on the cover.
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