Research – Magazine Cover 2 Total Film

Total Film is a British film magazine published 13 times a year by Future Publishing. The magazine offers film, DVD and Blu-ray news, reviews and features. Total Film has the largest circulation of any film magazine in the country, after Empire magazine.

Total Film specialises in a range of features, from interviews and photo shoots with established and up-and-coming actors and directors, to major film previews and retrospective pieces. All issues contain the Total Film Interview this is an in-depth chat with a celebrated actors or directors, along with a critique of their body of work.Total Film competes for the same sort of market as Empire Magazine, both place more emphasis on covering mainstream and popular films than smaller independent or art films and it also tends to take the same sort of reverent approach when reviewing new films.

The front cover of the issue of Total Film below features Sherlock Holmes as it was the big studio release of that month.

 

The magazine title is the biggest and boldest used on the cover. The colour scheme seems to be white and blue, this gives a distinctive feel to the cover. The main feature which is Sherlock Holmes film is plastered over almost half the page. The magazine also exploits a USP in the strap line "World Exclusive!". Other features inside are given less space and spread out around the periphery, but the use of large blue titles draws the attention to them.


Below are a few more that caught my attention, sometimes covers are dedicated to a theme, which in this case are comic book heroes. Also I noticed aside from their title Total Film are not afraid to experiment with different layouts for their features and tag lines.

Reference: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Total_Film