Andrew's Textual Analysis Of A Magazine

Textual Analysis of a ‘MOVIE MAGAZINE FRONT COVER’

Because of the front cover of the magazine, this would mainly appeal to an audience of 17-25. This range of people should know more or less about the Max Payne franchise and why the homicide police detective is relentlessly rampaging around New York city solving a series of murders while killing everyone that may have had any relation to the brutal murder of his family.

The image of Max Payne could connote to the audience almost as if he’s pointing the gun towards them to force them to buy the magazine.
The masthead is in contrast to the background colour of the dark night sky. As in all the issues of this magazine, the font remains bold, strong and capitalised so that the audience can always recognise this product. But even though the font is large and bold it always leaves space for the main image of the magazine to stand out.

The word ‘TOTAL’ in the ‘F’ signifies to the audience that it this magazine applies to all the different genres of films. This is the magazines one and only, never changing style, as well as printing the date, issue number, price and website in the same place on every issue with nothing obstructing the view. This style of magazine is consistent throughout all the issues and is even supported image as the gun in his left hand aligns itself with the top of the ‘M’ at the end of the word ‘FILM’.

The colour scheme of the text on this issue are white and yellow font, the yellow font adds a slight variation of colour to the page but overall it stays dim and dark like the way I suspect it was intended to be. The ‘MAX PAYNE’ font stands out not only as a large text with a broken effect applied to it, but also because it has a direct denotation to the image behind it. Quite often with large images the text is on the bottom half of the page, this is so the picture is clear and not cluttered with information. To slice the information displayed on the cover further, the header or the footer would display what's inside the magazine without going into too much detail. To separate the words every other words is in bold font. The bar-code is always in the bottom half of the cover, in this issue its vertical up the left hand side in other issues it's horizontal.

The sub heading under the main heading 'WAHLBERG FINDS HIS BOURNE' could connote that actor Mark Wahlberg has found the bourne inside of himself, this is a reference to another trilogy of movies that he starred in, meaning he has found the courage to do what has to be done, according to the storyline in the