Inception (Magazine analysis)

These are two magazine front covers for "INCEPTION". We can see that both magazines, total film and Empire have changed the house style of their magazines to fit inceptions theme. In both covers we see that Leonardo Dicaprio is in a darker light, this could show that he has an element of evil to the film, but seeing as he is the only character on both covers it could show that he is the hero in the film. In the Empire cover we see that the puffs beside Dicaprio are going backwards like they are being "sucked into a blackhole" this could suggest that the film has something to do with travelling through time. In the total film cover we can see that the background is made up of a section of a street filled with buildings; also the title on total film is made up of a birds eye view of buildings, this could strongly suggest that the film story revolves around buildings.

Both magazines have a strict colour scheme which is red, black and dark blue, the red could signify dangers or loves, and the black and dark blue could signify evil.

It is very rare for a magazine to change the house style of their magazines, so for two to change the house style is extremly rare, which could suggest that the film is very good and one to certainly watch. They have done this before for The Dark Knight, the magazines changed their house style. The director Christopher Nolan directed The dark knight, now he has a reputation in making very sucessful films, he has also directed Inception so because of his reputation the magazines and all viewers would expect a very good film, so companies promote the film more because of Nolans reputation.