Movie Magazines: Total Film

Total Film, published by Future Publishing, is the United Kingdom's second best-selling film magazine. It offers film and DVD news, reviews, and features. The magazine was launched in 1997 and is published every four weeks (13 times a year).

Circulation: 85,031 (2008 average)
First issue: 1997
Company: Future Publishing

To get some ideas for my magazine cover I looked at some of the covers for Total Film magazine,
 

This cover includes everything that a magazine cover should, it has the title, and the price and the barcode. It has a main feature, which the image on the cover is rellavent to, and it tells the reader what other features are included on the magazine.
The layout for this issue, is quite simple there is not alot of text on it as the image takes up alot of the space, but I think it really works.
 
 
 
 
 

This one is a similar layout, but there is a little bit more text because the image does not take up as much space. Also becuase it is the same magazine it will be a similar layout, as magazine's usualy follow a layout for each issue, making it recognisable and the reader is familiar with it when they read it.
This cover is much more striking than the one before but this is because the image is in colour and I think it is much more eye-catching than a black and white image.
 
 
 
 

For this one they have changed the layout slightly, the characters are infront of the title, instead of behind, but this is because of the image, and the title would have covered the faces of the characters.
It's also different becuase of the positioning of the text, where as before there was centered main text, on this one all the main text is aligned to the left.
There are smaller images on the cover, making it look a little crowded but not as simply laid out like the others.
I like this layout because I think along with the smaller images there is more to grab the attention of a reader.