4 main film magazines

The images below are the 4 main film magazines on the market today. These magazines are Premiere, Total Film, Empire and Entertainment. All of the front covers main feature is the star they have on the front. The company's do this because this is the first thing the audience see. It's the visual syntax. They first look at the image, then he masthead, then the main headline. If somebody was a James Bond fan, they would choose Entertainment over any of the other 4 because of the picture.this is why the magazine company's spend lots of money to get the most famous person they can get on the cover. Another feature that attracts an audience is the colour of the magazine. Magazine company's work very hard to try and get the right colour for the right celebrity. Bullet grey is the perfect colour for James Bond as it matches the films personality. As you can see he shot type for each magazine is very different. Entertainment and Premier have gone for only having one character, this is because the films both follow one person (Iron Man and James Bond). The two other magazines have films that have more than one important character meaning they need more than one person on the cover. A lot of money and research goes into finding out what people look at when buying a magazine