Iron Man 2 magazine front cover

This is an effective magazine front cover as it includes many details and elements that will intrigue the audience into reading on. The image of Iron man fills most of the magazine cover highlighting his importance, he is also a well known figure for audience memebers to recognise. The title stands out as it's in white and is against his the colour red of his armour, it is in bold so it is easy to read. The tagline underneath 'NEW SUIT, NEW ENEMEIES, SAME ATTITUDE' reveals to the audience that this film will be even better than the first one with his funny personality and new adventures for him to battle.

The cover also includes added features such as the 'Plus! three amazing exclusives', this intrigues the audience as they know that they will be reading not only about IRON MAN 2, but also about three other amazing films., gives the audience more for there money. It also states an ultimate review of 2009, this could mean that the magazine talks about many films that were produced in 2009 intruiging the audience into wanting to read.

The USP for the poster is Iron Man himself this is because of how famous the figure is and the colour of his armour is eye catching to audience members. They way he is standing suggests to the audience that he is strong and confident as he is upright and bold, no sign of backing down to anyone that stands in his way. Empire is in blue near the top of the cover showing people who the magazine is made by, Empire are well known for producing magazines and they are known to be full of detail. Although half of Empire is cut out with Iron Man's head it is still recognisable, in the gap of the M it states the price for the magazine so people know how much it will cost them, for £3.99 this cover intrigues the audience as they know they will be getting a lot of information on films for that price and they know that it will be decent to read and interesting.

This magazine gives enough features for people to be intriuged, they will scan the whole cover hoping to find something that catches there eye could be an added extra like the three amazing exclusives or something like ' First look'. These compared to the previous Harry Potter cover i analysed is more effective as it is overloaded with information about the magazine, rather than a plain cover.