The Hollywood Reporter: front cover analysis

• The main image used for this front cover is a medium shot, angled- side portrait of actor Mark Wahlberg directly looking at the audience drawing us in. The natural pose he has is a relax and friendly one further drawing us in as it makes us feel comfortable although his facial expression suggests otherwise and although he dominates most of the page, the colours and softer tones used counteract this slight feeling of intimidation. Furthermore, his pose suggests that in the article that he is featured in, he will be educating us, perhaps on a film matter. 

• The masthead is placed at the very top of the page in white font and because it is a well known magazine the creators of this magazine were easily able to overlap the main image wit the masthead, resulting in Mark Wahlberg's hair covering some of the magazine's logo, however,  this isn't an issue for the reasons mentioned so this is already served as a brand identity and the magazine's viewers already know it's name and it's genre, despite some of it being hidden. The issue date is placed underneath the "H" in white similarly to the masthead yet in smaller font.

• The text that overlaps Mark's image are the ones directly linked to him, giving us as an audience insight as to what the article written which features him is about. "The Fixer" us written in block capitals in yellow, making it stand out and the text next to it is written in white and is as long as "the fixer" in terms of height. This suggests to us that the text in yellow is a title and the text in white is a small blurb of what will be included in the extended version of the article. The things they wanted to stand out in this blurb about Mark, is either written in italics or capitals.

• There are another four small blurbs included on this front cover and these are placed on the background on each side of Mark's photograph and are placed in same colours, taking the same form as the bigger one which is about Mark Wahlberg. The titles are in yellow which is a darker shade of the one used for "the fixer" making it clearer that the main feature of this magazine's issue is that which included Mark Wahlberg and the shorter versions of the articles underneath are again written in white. 

• The colours used on this cover are very effective as they are light/bright and seem to stand out against the ombre greyish coloured background. As previously mentioned, the image dominates most of the cover and the texts placements work well with the actors composition. 

• As a whole, I really like how although it is quiet simplistic, it is highly effective as it has both a visual and written appeal to it.