Research into film magazine covers

We looked at several magazines including Empire and Total Film. Our group observed that the magazines who's front page was solely based on promoting one motion picture film;

• there was a huge picture of the film of the main cast in dramatic poses.
• the words were limited
• the font was big and bold
• A date of issue
• they featured minor information about other films
• the background color varies from the intensity of the main picture on the cover