The masthead is very big and takes up lot of the front cover, but it is still blocked by the main image and the middle of it is blocked out by Leonard DiCaprio, this shows that even though it is the magazines main title, the image is more important and will make the magazine sell more. It is ionic colour of red because empire always uses the colour red for the masthead. it is in contrast of the main colour grey and makes it a lot easier for the viewer to read the masthead.
Cover Lines
The cover lines are like representing the film and reflect on it. The film is about the dreams and non reality world, and the cover lines look like it is deceiving reality and does't look real. The image is very simple but is exaggerated by the cover lines and without them it wouldn't look as good and wouldn't fit in the trend of inception, it would just look like a man dressed in a suit with a gun. the quotes are also using quite big film names to try and catch other viewers attention, like batman 3 and toy story 3. These are important because if the people don't like inception but are more interested in these movies then they will buy the magazines for those reasons. This is also known as plugs and give information the contents of the magazines.
Main Image
The main image is Leonardo DiCaprio wearing a smart suit and holding a gun, looking slightly off the camera but is centre of the cover. If this was just used and nothing else, no one would know what it is for, but because of the background of the bird's eye view of a big city, showing how high up he is (importance of him). This is important because without the background, you wouldn't know the reason why he is standing there, but with the background you know what he is doing and wy he is standing there in that pose. This is very simple pose but because of the editing and the gun in his hand it makes the image a lot more powerful and it makes Leonardo DiCaprio seem intimidating to others and someone you don't want to annoy.
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