R&P Mission Impossible 4 Empire Magazine Cover Analysis

The cover of this edition of empire magazine showcases the main character Ethan Hunt played by Tom Cruise with Jane Carter played by Paula Patton, Benji Dunn played by Simon Pegg and William Brandt played by Jeremy Renner feature in the background of the image. These are the main characters of the film and most of them heave appeared in the previous films at some point. Featuring the main characters in the front cover of the magazine helps to atteract the audicnes attention as the characters, especially Tom Cruise have a huge fan base and by putting him on the front cover, they are appealing to an audience that includes fans of action films, spy films, sci-fi films and fans of Tom Cruise.

The genre is a bit harder to identify from the offset in this cover image as some of the other civer images i have seen, there is nothing really that gives away the genre, other that the title, but for those that are not familiar with the Mission Impossible franchise, it might be a little tricky for them to identify the genre of the film that they are advertising, but there are a few hints in the image as to what the genre could be.

The characters are all wearing black with Ethan wearing the iconic black leather jacket. This could be something that could help the audience identify the genre as well as the futuristic background. It is a very dark image overall with very few objects in the background. The rest of the characters as well are wearing darker clothes, mostly black with also helps to give the image a darker and more mysterious feeling, even though the genre of the film is an action film, but the mysterious feeling of the image makes it more interesting to the viewer, as well as helps the advertising of the film.

The title of the film is shown in white text in almost the center of the page, which is the second thing that the audience audience will see after the main image in the center of the page, The white text makes the title pop out of the page, especially against the white background, the white text also makes the page look really clean, which makes it more appealing to the audience. The font of the title is similar to the Empire title at the top of the page, this keeps the page tidy and appealing to the eye.

There is not much else in the image on the cover of this edition of Empire magazine, the image is simple yet effective.