From looking at many different magazine covers I have found a clear trend. This trend is eye contact, this is a feature of magazine covers from Film magazines to music magazines. The reason for this is to create a synthetic relationship with the audience, by having the Joker looking at the audience it makes the magazine a lot more personal. This eye contact is something that will be used in our magazine cover for our film. The colours used in this magazine cover will be similar to the colours used in our magazine cover. The dark tones I feel reflect the dark nature of the narrative within The Dark Knight and our film. Even with the colour purple they have still gave it a dark and creepy feel. Also there is a lot of focus on The Joker rather than tag lines and other stories. The attention to detail is clear in this cover, each piece of mise-en-scene links well into the character and the film such as, the messy make up on The Jokers face. personally, the best part of this magazine cover the use of fonts. Firstly, the masthead is obviously in the normal font for Empire and isn't surprising but it is a great font that is very clear and is easily recognisable to the audience as Empire. Secondly, the text underneath 'The Joker' text is a remake font of the classic font of Batman showing synergy and a link between the DC comic and the film. finally, The text for The Joker is a great font that shows a playful and stylish font. This font is clever and just by looking at it, it creates a link the The character. We have taken a lot of influence from this cover and many other but hopefully extract the best from each to try and create a professional looking magazine cover for our film.
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