"Man of Steel" Magazine cover Analysis

The film follows the classic story of a kryptonian baby being adopted by a normal human couple and how he grows up into superman. Development began in 2008 where Warner Brothers took pitches from comic book writers, screen writers and directors. Like many trailers it starts by introducing the studio and production company, warner brothers, legendary, DC comics and syncope. Being large studios the audience will be familiar with the films made by them which will suggest the scale of film.

The cover shows Henrey Caville (superman) walking forward with explostions going off behind him. Caville appears powerful and fearless as he walks through all this destruction looking un intrested by any of it. The explosions in the background suggest the genre of sci-fy and action. Previous adaptations of Superman have commonly shown him in a soft compassionate way most notably in the film previous to this one. This cover presents a new type of super hero we are seeing in the avengers and batman where superhero's are much darker and more capable of being dangerous as they are less relatable to audiences. In Thor this can be seen with the characters of Thor where when he was having blood drawn and he reacts by saying "how dare you attack the son of oden" and proceeds to beat up all the doctors in the room. These type of scenes make the new type of superheros appear more dangerous and capable of being the bad guy as they are presented as aliens. Because of factors like this the body language of Superman could also suggest that it was him who caused all that destruction.   

Its inevitable that this film will have a sequal, I think this is why they didnt include his female companion as she will be more involved in the second film. Unlike previous superman films this film has the technology to show his past as they are able to create a planet from gci. By showing him and him alone of the cover of the magazine it emphasises how this film revolves around him

Like the avengers and the new spiderman, the new superhero films are taking a darker spin, this is presented through the darker colouring of his costume. As the costume is something the audience looks forward to seeing by showing one that is completly different to anything weve seen before would create buzz about the film.