Research into Magazine Cover Text - Michael

Empire Magazine 

·         “Massive Preview Special”

·         “Bloody hell, Harry comes out fighting”

·         “Oscar special!”

·         “First look at the Citizen Kane of super hero movies”

·         “Inside Michael Mann’s Gangster blockbuster”

·         “Inception, the Matrix meets 007, on steroids!”

·         “Essential 2011 preview”

·         “Inside, the bloodiest yet”

·         “Edgar Wright levels up with this one”

·         “The Epic returns”

The language used on a magazine usually consists of a masthead which tells you the name of the magazine and is located at the top of the magazine, a collection of teaser texts, which are attention-grabbing lines, located all around the front cover hinting at the different articles inside. Crossheads, normally a smaller headline which summaries the main article such as “Bloody hell, Harry comes out fighting” for a main feature about the last Harry Potter movie. Cover lines are smaller features about articles in the magazine. Also you can expect taglines such as “Number 1 movie mag in the UK “.  Further language includes offers such as “Free Poster” which are normally shown in the form of a Puff a small colourful shape with the information in it that reader’s attention is brought to immediately.

I also notice how much extreme language there is to make the reader feel special - exclusive, best, only, best ever etc