Empire Magazine Front Cover Analysis

This is a front cover from an ‘Empire magazine’. This type of magazine is a British film magazine published monthly. This is the best selling film magazine in Britain and focuses on mainstream Hollywood blockbusters. You can see this immediately on the front cover as the known movie character Katniss Everdeen from the Blockbuster “The Hunger Games” and actor Jennifer Lawrence as the dominant image on the cover. In addition the cover lines talk about films such "Tomorrowland" which is a block buster film. The font chosen for the masthead of the cover also represents the type of magazine it is. The powerful red used to represent bold writing embodies the dynamic well known films advertised on this cover.