All magazines have a cover, the cover has to be the most eye catching and interesting part of the whole magazine. The cover has to immediately grab the attention of any customers that walk past. there are several main parts to a magazine cover, these are ; Masthead, plug, inset, captions, cover lines, main star, main cover line, issue/date, price and barcode. However the connotations can make the magazine much more appealing to their targeted audience. The main cover line, cover line and main star help the audience deduce who the main star is and what they do.

here we have a magazine cover from Empire with the actor Tom Hiddleston, the cover also give info about Tom Hiddleston’s most famous roll as Loki, The God Of Mischief from the famous marvel movie series, the cover overall is very plain and doesn’t seem to have any inset’s unless you consider the photoshopped shadow one, the contrast between his royal blue suit and the gold background make him stand out, also the main cover line call him world exclusive draws more attention to him. In the future I shall use these techniques as well to further improve my work as well as make my work look more like a genuine magazine.