Magazine Cover Analysis - Empire: Mission Impossible 4

The main image is used as the most iconic Mission Impossible actors within the last few films, implying they will be in this film too. Including the main characters which assist the attractions of audience’s attention as characters have a big fan bases, therefore they are engaging to an audience that includes fans of action films, spy films, sci-fi films and fans of actors.

The genre is difficult to recognise from the balance in this cover image, with nothing showing what kind of genre it could be. The USP being greatly shown as just using the name of the Mission Impossible franchise as people cannot gather much else from the image but only the title.

The characters are all wearing black which is iconic in this movie franchise. The background is unclear are hard to understand where they are. It is a relatively dark image as the rest of the characters are wearing dark clothes, giving the cover a mystifying mood because none have any gory cuts, blood etc on them suggesting its an action, helping promote the film as the audience don’t know why they are gathered around to look at the viewer.

Title is used well to contrast as its white against black background to it, it is placed in the centre of the page, which really grabs the eye sight, as it pops out of the page, especially as its white vs black. The clean white colour makes it look clean and more appealing to the audience as the font used is similar to the famous Empire font at the top, links the whole magazine front cover well.

I think this magazine front cover looks too loaded with information, with the extra images on the bottom of the page, although it looks appealing, it is an interesting way of creating a front cover.