Magazine analysis - Star Wars Rogue One

The genre of this magazine is a specialist film magazine specializing in getting exclusives of new upcoming films. This magazine analysis is a bit different as this isnt necessarily an analysis of a review page its more of a 'looking forward to' or a hype building article to get fans excited about the new Star Wars spinoff. Their target audience is mainly going to be young adults ranging from around 14 - 26. This particular page is aimed towards fans of the Star Wars franchise as it is shows a lot of references to the franchise and it is trying to catch the fans eye with the Star Wars logo in the bottom left.


The colour used in this magazine is very dark and edging towards a cool blue tint to all titles and also the primary image. This slightly hints at the darker plot as it is suggested by the mise en scene (Darker colours and rough clothing). The color is used to fit with the genre of the film which is sci fi so the magazine emphasises the fact this film is very techy with the bold perfect edged font and light blue symbolising electricity and many people associate it with technologically advanced things. The titles stay in the bold clean font throughout and much are very much like the iconic Star Wars titles but of course different enough to differentiate between this spin off film and the main franchise 7 (so far). This huge writing isn't actually the title of the film as the film is called Rogue One. This is more of tagline to catch star wars fans or regular readers eyes. It also has a small summary of what the more detailed paragraph is about to intrigue readers and get them to read the more detailed writing. There is also a small text box to describe what is going on in the picture in a small summary.

The primary image is laid out across the entire page and to a lot of readers this attracts them very quickly to the article as it is visually pleasing and in a sense a lot of text does put a lot of people reading off. So the image fills the white gaps and makes the article look aesthetically pleasing and the text look minimal and keeps the layout very basic which for the best and keeps the aesthetic that most readers will like as it sums it up nicely and catches the viewers eyes as the huge tagline draws immediate attention and the characters are dressed very strangely and there's a lot going in this one image so it keeps the reader looking into all of the small details of the one image spread across it. The image is also used to show the readers the main characters which will be central to the plot for the spin off so it also acts like an introduction of all the characters.