Magazine Film Cover Analysis:Empire Suicide Squad

In September 2016 Empire magazine released a series of covers, in an effort to promote the highly anticipated DC movie, who's trailer was released over a year before it's 2016 august release. The covers focused on each of the main cast from the suicide squad, These being Dead shot, Enchantress, Harley Quinn and the highly anticipated role of the Joker, who's character is replacing the late heath ledger with Jared Leto. Therefore with The joker's character being of a high significance to DC comics, and is arguably the famous villain in Comic book history.

This is definitely shown within his cover, Which shows a very darkly lit and murky room,with fluorescent purple lighting reflecting from two cables the joker is pushing together, effectively showing the audience the craziness within his character. The colour scheme also effectively shows an accurate representation of his character, The purple an green are shown as a heavy theme on the cover, due to the fact that these colours are the iconic scheme that has been used on the joker for many years, but also sufficiently shows the re-vamp the character has acquired due to the tattoos, and stylish and expensive looking clothing.

The receiving audience can see that the film is destined for success, due to the sole focus,when it comes to visual image,on the suicide squad film.Even having the joker's face block out empires title, showing how much of a bold character he is. We also se highlighted in bright green in black font "Meet the joker!", making the audience feel as though the character is a real life persona due to the fact that they could meet him in real life. Underneath the joker we see the movie's title, "suicide squad" written boldly to stand off of the dark purple background, therefore helping the audience to realise  what the film is called and therefore make it rememberable for them to go and see it in cinemas.

The tag line underneath the title also shows a good representation of the film, "psychos.Killers.Freaks.Here to save the world.", showing the audience the plot summary of the film trying to draw in the audience who enjoys violent and dramatic themes.