Conventions of a Film Magazine

 The cover of this empire magazine follows the general conventions you would find on a film magazine. It also follows a fairly common design shared by all issues of Empire magazine.
 The masthead of the magazine is the largest text on the cover and is in bright red writing making it the first thing a reader sees and allows a common reading of the magazine to instantly notice the magazine on a shelf and pick it up. It is also in the common font and one of the same recurring colours used by Empire magazine on all its issues again so people are familiar with what it looks like and also making all issues of Empire magazine look uniform in appearance.
 The main image of the magazine shows a famous actor and relates to the biggest story on the cover of the magazine. It attracts immediate fans of the actor or the character he is portraying if someone seeing the magazine would recognize the character. By using a well known actor the magazine can also attract one off buyers who wouldn't commonly buy the magazine but are interested in the actor or the film he is going to be in.
 The colour of the text is interchanged for every other story between being black and white. These colours contrast each other well and by using them in an alternating pattern the magazine looks more interesting than if a single colour had been used.