The genre of this magazine is a film magazine - Empire - and is mainly focusing on Harry Potter. The photo is a medium-close up of the main character, Harry himself. This enables the reader to be able to see all the details such as the blood and cuts on his face. This helps to somewhat describe the narrative of the film, as the blood connotates the idea of danger it contains and helps to show it contains elements of action and fantasy genre. The lighting of the cover is low key and follows the style of the film, as the more recent the film, the darker it gets as the plot unfolds. The magazine has a house style of three main colours and the text follows a consistent style. It has only two photos, as more emphasis is seemingly placed on the text and headlines, and the main photo who assumes from the popularity of the Harry Potter series, that you would know who he is. I like this magazine cover as it is simple and does not look cramped. The colour of the masthead is bold therefore catching the audience's attention easily and making you look at it. The representation the magazine is giving of young males is that they are quite brave (connotated from his facial expression), and too some extent that they are violent and will stand up for themselves. The target audience is probably children aged 12 up until late teens, and those that generally tend to read the magazines.
This film cover is very colourful, I think they have done this to follow the idea of the film they are advertising - Alice In Wonderland. The colours used are bold and very bright, this helps to connotate that the film is a bit crazy and of the fantasy element. The colours also portray the film's young adult target audience, due to the magazine being eyecatching and colourful. The narrative the photo gives is that the film has a crazy storyline, and the craziness links with the idea of a 'wonderland'. The costume of the character on the magazine is very eccentric and shows that kind of personality he would have.
The films magazine has a large masthead which is bold and immediately recognisable to those that have read it before. There is little use of text except the for the coverlines in which describe some of the films and the stars mentioned in this issue. The representation of the character is crazy and hard to generalise as one type of person. They look middle aged, however do not tend to follow any conventions a middle aged adult normally would. The general cover of his magazine suggests to me that the target audience is a younger adult one who may not necessarily want to read as much detail about the film.
I find this example a more typical magazine cover. It follows the house style of the three colour rule throughout, similar fonts and contains a substantial amount of text without it being too much. Emphasis is placed on the shot on the cover, the iconic Will Ferrell. This immediately attracts a target audience that is quite wide audience to read the magazine as he has many fans and is widely known for his comedy work. The miss-en-scene the editors have used makes it look much more realistic, giving it a narrative that the film is realistic, however the model's pose is quite jokey, which connotates the comedy side, however this magazine is the one that is not of fantasy genre as the others are. I think if I am to base my magazine on any of these examples it will be this one due to the fact we are making a social realism trailer, known for their realistic features.
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