Magazine Cover Analysis Two

 

In this magazine by Total Film Magazine, the cover’s main focus is the film ‘Cruella’, and effectively communicates this through the colour palette of red, black, white and green – the main colours associated with the famous Disney villain. As well as this, the masthead has been designed to match the aesthetics of Cruella as the word ‘film’ has patterns like a dalmatian, a large part of her story. Furthermore, the main image is of Emma Stone in costume as Cruella, playing the character through her serious, slightly angry facial expression that she presents to the camera, referencing the film. The background is red, contrasting her black and white costume while matching her lipstick. The supporting images on this magazine are Michael B Jordan playing Jordan Clark in ‘Without Remorse’, and Margot Robbie playing Harley Quinn in ‘Suicide Squad’. These images accompany their related cover lines such as ‘On set exclusive: Without Remorse’ for Jordan and ‘Bad Gals! Celebrating cinema’s most iconic queens’ for Robbie. Other cover lines on this include ‘Billie Piper on Modern Love and Doctor Who’ and ‘Bridesmaids, revisited’, emphasising that this is a film magazine. The main cover line is ‘Emma Stone re-frames the narrative on an iconic villain’, enticing an audience interested in Disney, Emma Stone, or general film news.