DECONSTRUCTION: Empire, The Godfather cover.

This is EMPIRE magazines 'Godfather' cover. The cover is iconic as it needs no title to show what it is about. It is similar to 'The Number 23' poster posted on this blog as it is a black and white face coming out of the darkness. The eyes are hollowed to black pits and the faces' angry expression is clear.
EMPIRE's usual red title is instead gold symbolizing that this issue is special in some way as gold usually represents winning, royalty or greatness. The title at the bottom proves this with 'The Godfather' named 'The Greatest Movie Of All Time'. Although the title being gold is a great different feature of the magazine we will try to keep the formalities of our magazine cover the same to represent to our audience the clear conventions of the magazine. We like the ides of one item whether it be the title, a face or a symbol being the hook for the movie and we will look further into this using research into symbols.