Total film : Max Payne
Total film the magazine is a British film magazine published 13 times a year every four weeks by future publishing. The magazine was launched in 1997 and offers films, DVDs and blu ray news, reviews and features. Guest editors have included Peter Jackson, Kevin Smith, Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant. Each month total film provides a range of features, from a full length of interviews and photo shoots with well-known and up and coming actors and directors. Also major film previews and interesting pieces.
The denotation of this magazine front cover is that it has a masthead situated at the top centre of the page which is the normal convention of magazine front covers and the main subject the actor ‘Max Wahlberg’ in the middle of this front cover. The shot used of ‘Max Wahlberg’ is a medium long shot also the barcode is on the bottom left of the page and coverlines situating on both sides of this front cover. The background is of a dark misty place looks like the winter season is present in this magazine film cover. The masthead is in sans serif font covering most of the top half of the page; it is placed in big bold font ‘TOTAL FILM’, this masthead looks very strong and bold which corresponds to the main subject/focus in the magazine front cover ‘Max Wahlberg’ who looks in total control holding his two guns and commanding his position very strongly and boldly. Also the colour of the masthead as it is in black and white, these are standard bold colours used for many things this could connote the type of film this magazine front cover is trying to promote e.g. its going to be serious. If the masthead colours were in blue and yellow the film will most likely to be cheerful and less serious.
The main image in this film magazine is ‘Max Wahlberg’ he is dressed in all black which could tell the audience that this film is going to be very serious and dangerous and the black could connote what people wear at funerals, also the non verbal communication of his face having such concentration on it/seriousness and also his props of him holding two guns it tells the audience that this film is going to be action packed. On the main image there looks like there is high key lighting on the subject then on the rest of the front cover there is low key lighting; the low key lighting of the background shows the loneliness of ‘Max Wahlberg’ and how he looks very isolated like him against the world. The coverlines of this magazine front cover follows the conventions of normal magazine front covers with a subheadings and then information underneath it. The subheadings of the coverlines are in yellow they creators could have did this to brighten up this magazine front cover also to grab the audiences attention due to the fact the coverlines could contain important information.
Most film magazines want to make a bold statement to there audiences and attract many readers and total film is no exception this magazine is very clear and comes across and being very basic compared to other film magazines such as Empire or Fangoria. This total film magazine gets straight to the point in the statement they want to make which is the lonely figure Max Payne who is on a mission.
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