Film Magazine Front Cover Research - Total Film

I am now going to research Total Film magazine, as this is another mainstream film magazine. I think the same as before as Horror films are not really advertised within Media magazines, so it is probably a good idea that we are doing our own Film Magazine.

Here is the Total Film Front cover for Inception. In the Total Film title you can see that the title has been edited to seem like it is part of a city, as it is an aerial shot of a city. I think they have done this because within the Inception film you are transported to many levels of dreams, and on many occasions you, as the audience, find yourself in a city setting. The nearly full length shot of Leonardo DiCaprio suggests that he is main character of this film and he has a shocked expression on his face which could tell us that he is worried or he is looking at something which has shocked him. At Leonardo DiCaprio shoulder the background changes, so that you can now see the side of a city building, at a human eye level, this could explain the different levels of dreams in which they enter. I think for our Front cover we should use the Total Film title idea to tie in with our Teaser trailer, as with the Empire Magazine as well.

This is the Front cover for the Social Network, which is about the finders of Social networking site Facebook. As on Facebook, you have a profile and you can upload a picture of yourself for your profile I think the front cover is a really good idea, as the main picture and even the Total Film title is made up of hundreds of Profile Pictures. As nearly everyone uses Facebook, I think this was an imaginative idea for a front cover as not really anyone knew the basis behind where Facebook came from. From this I think we could possibly use lots of little pictures, perhaps of the victims in the film to make a main picture of the killer, however we have quite a tight time restriction and I think this will take too long but it is a good idea nonetheless.