various film magazine covers

It's an essential task to carry out both primary and secondary research in order to produce a successful and effective magazine cover, poster and film opening to create a higher level of understanding of what our target audience want. To complete some secondary research I have been looking at different magazine covers in order to provide guidance and knowledge of the type of magazine cover Becka and I would like to achieve. 

Here is a magazine cover that has been developed by a real student who has previously taken media, it becomes obvious that this is an unofficial cover for Empire as the titling of the mast head isn't the same as what it usually is on the professional, official covers for the magazine. The reason why I've decided to include this unofficial magazine cover is because I like the look of the image displayed and feel this would fit into our thriller genre of our film. I believe the cover to be quite quite effective and suggests the genre it's attempting to sell immediately. The model is directly gazing at the audience and has been taken at a fairly close up shot in order to entice and intrigue the audience into wanting to see the film they're promoting. The dark backgrounds adds to the suggestion that the film fits into the thriller genre as this is when most individuals become more fearful in any situation, the expression the model pulls shows us she is in some type of danger and is essentially being grabbed from her feet. In our opening film our storyline consists of a girl who is essentially kidnapped so reproducing a magazine cover like the person who has produced 'Captured' could make our magazine cover quite effective and enticing. The shot has been taken from a close up shot as the models facial details are present and 'in your face' however it could be suggested as a mid shot as the models upper limbs and upper body is present in the image. I love the image that's used because of the danger it immediately presents, I feel that the image quality it fairly good as well as the narrow depth of field has meant that her face is completely in focus whilst her hand and the background which is nearer to the camera is slightly off focus. I believe the magazine image has a more professional approach than the texts surrounding it, in order to create a better approach for the whole of it Becka and I wish to replicate a film magazine cover by using the exact same ordering, font styles and sizes in our own magazine cover.

Here is another that seems obviously produced by someone studying A level media, I am able to suggest this because it doesn't have the quality to look official. Although it's a good attempt I don't feel the people who've made the covers have grasped onto a real professional feel of a magazine cover and the emptiness of it proves this further. The image displayed is of a good quality with all members gazing towards the camera to entice and intrigue the audience, I feel the image reveals the genre of the film straight away as I'm immediately persuaded into believing the film consists thriller or action features due to the costumes and appearance of the characters. It doesn't look professional because the titling of the magazine they're supposed to be replicating isn't the same at all, this has a negative impact on the professionalism of the magazine appearance.