The front page of the magazine consists of a close up of actor, Heathe Ledger, otherwise and more commonly known as 'The Joker' from 'The Dark Knight'. He has strong eye contact with the audience of this magazine. His intense eye character also reflects the nature of the magazine, and suggests that the magazine and all of the concepts it consists of will be blunt and to the point. Through all the heavy eye make up, The Joker's eyes still manage to stand out. This immediately forms tension and also sugegsts that the nature of his character is cause tension and suspense.
There is no background colour for this particular magazine. This connotes the actors importantce to the magazine, and to the film industry, as an actor, on the whole.
A tagline on top of the masthead is visible; '2 COVERS TO COLLECT' This suggests that The Joker has been the face of not one Empire magazine front cover, but two. This perhaps highlights his importance to the magazine. The fact that that piece of text is placed on top of the title connotes its importance. The actual close of The Joker also agrees with this view.
The price and issue of the magazine can be found in between the 'M' Of EMPIRE. The fact that it is written in such small font, connotes that it is 'insignificant' in comparison to the model on the front cover, and the cover story.
Another tag line is visible, 'The Joker Vs. Batman - Summer Just Got Serious'. This has been adapted from The Joker's ever famousn saying 'Why So Serious?' - This additionally connotes The Joker's importance to the cover.
The colour scheme overall is black and green. Green is usually associated with jealousy and heightens the belief that perhaps The Joker is jealous or envious of Batman, for whatever reason.
The fact that no other pictures are visible on the cover, suggests the intention of the designer of the cover, was to have focus on only The Joker.
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