We done excessive research on film magazines, analysing the conventions that can be similar within several magazines or individual ones that break out of the mundane qualities.
In the empire magazine cover first off you can see that the masthead appears to be behind the actor and for the total film cover it is on top of the actor. These are both very common conventions and whether either of them is used depends on what idea people are going for. We as a group decided we want to follow the convention of the masthead behind the actor because it doesn't overtake the image overall but has importance and is still visable for people to see. The coverlines are something that is most prominent for a magazine cover. It needs to be able to attract the audience with it's use of promotion for other films or what is offered to possibly intrigue them like reviews, exclusive interview etc... The conventions for the coverlines are different to each other in these covers. Empire mag has all coverlines on the left side of the cover whilst Total film has it on both sides to seem as though it is rounds the image, we are more elicited to going again with what Empire has done because of the focus on one said of the image whereas we can place other information on the other side like the title and invitation's to get free items.
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