Analysis of X-men First Class Empire Magazine cover

This is the magazine cover for one of Empire magazine X-men first class edition. The magazine composes 3 protagonists of the film in the centre of the magazine behind the heading of the film which is composed in the centre of the page aswell. This indicates to the audience that these 3 protagonist of the film are going to have major roles in the film. The centre protagonist out of the three has his back to our audience, this could indicate he has a double identity and his character hasn't got a clear path in the film. The background of this poster is red, which is associated with bad and evil. This magazine cover is suggesting that the protagonist shown on this cover are evil. The magazine cover also shows captions that encourage readers to by the magazine commonly known as hyperbolic wording. The captions state other big films that are coming to cinemas and special interviews with celebrities. Also in the background is the X-men symbol. This symbol relates to all comic book fans and so draws the attention of other readers. The poster is quite conventional and so meaning it is formal. However it breaks conventions in the  masthead of the cover where the magazine title is no longer in red but in white. This could be done so that the heading of the title doesn't class with the background which is trying to tell the audience something. The magazine coevr also has a sell line which is also conventional. In the sell line there is something which would attract the attention of the reader. There is a selling point which says that there are two covers for this edition of the magazine. This is a key selling point which many magazines do so that collectors of films buy more copies. This is similary shown in there other edition which I shall analyse next.

This is the second magazine cover for this film. This edition shows a different selection of protagonists composed on the centre of the magazine. This edition has the same amount of protagonist on the magazine cover, but they are postioned differently. The centre protagonist on this cover has been positioned straight and is looking towards us. This in comparison to the the other edition shows this protagonist is more certain about his characteristics in the film and doesn't change from good to bad. The background on this edition is blue which is associated with good. This indicates that these protagonist are good in the film. The magazine cover has the same features as the other edition but the background and characters have changed.

These two magazine covers are for the same film but show two different sets of protagonist and they show this by using a different background colour. We can use this idea of making two magazine covers for our production as our film has sets of good and evil characters.