I will be looking at two film magazine front covers from two different types of publications so that I can both look and find the conventions of magazine front covers and see the layout, design and what a magazine front cover should consist of. Once I have done this I will analyse them in terms of layout, style and content whilst highlighting the difference between different themes of magazine.
What I found was after doing this task was that for SFX, which is a science fiction magazine that focuses on mainstream Hollywood films and is aimed at a younger audience is that not only does it have more conventions of magazine front covers on it but it uses these conventions more. These conventions being a masthead, cover lines, a date, other images, banners, a dominant central image of a recognisable Hollywood star - Hugh Jackman/ Wolverine. This is a visually rich and in your face poster.
On the other hand Screen International is aimed at an older audience and for those who work in the film industry. This poster contains far fewer conventions than SFX did. This Screen International poster only contains a masthead, date and issue number, a dominant central image of not very well known, new actors and film makers, a dominant cover line and two smaller cover lines.
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