This is the cover for an edition of Empire magazine. Its main focus and top story is the latest Harry Potter film. The background colour of the magazine is blue – which is used greatly in the colour palette for the Harry Potter films – as they always have a cold blue feeling about them. The main image on the cover is of ‘Harry Potter’ who is wearing a smart suit, however has cuts and scars on his face, showing action and battles. He is holding the well-known wand, which is pointing out toward the reader. The character is also looking straight off the front cover, out to the audience, which captures your attention. The wand looks like it is breaking through glass to almost get out of the magazine, and shards of glass are shattering across the page. Reflected in some of these shards of glass are the faces of other well-known characters from the films. Each of their faces are circling around the main image and Harry Potter to make him the main focus, and they are also much smaller images. Each of the other characters also look cut and hurt, showing their fights, and how they are also part of the action. The yellow text against the blue background makes it stand out to the reader and it jumps out at the audience. The white text also grabs your attention and most of the information is in the white coloured text. The grey text is the information that isn’t hugely necessary but gives more info. The yellow text in the grey text is the key words or highlighted factors. The title ‘Empire’ being red stands out as no other text or images on the page are red. The red colouring of ‘Empire’ is also recognisable for an audience as it is a logo and is usually always red. With the actual title of the main film (Deathly Hallows part 1) being smaller than most of the other text, it shows that majority of the audience and readers will also know what the title of the film is just from the image and the large caption of ‘Potter 7’.
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