The the three colour rule & Shot sizes on magazine covers.

The three colour rule.

Many magazines follow the convention of using three main colours on the cover of the magazine, they use this to make it simple and easy for readers to read.

Here are some examples.

Shot Sizes.

Most magazine covers use either close-up or mid-shot as the audience is interested on the main person on the cover rather than the background and what is behind them.

Close-up - A framing in which the scale of the object shown is relatively large. In a close-up a person's head, or some other similarly sized object, would fill the frame.


Medium-shot -A framing in which the scale of the object shown is fairly large; a human figure seen from the chest up would fill most of the screen. A common shot scale.


Long-shot - Framing such than an object four or five feet high would fill most of the screen vertically.