Magazine Cover First Draft

Here is the front cover for my film magazine as part of my ancilliary text for my film trailer. For the image on the front cover I designed it so the protagonist of the film is cloaked in shadows and is slowly blending in with the black background to show how isolated he is. Admittedly the actual design didn't turn out looking perfect so I will need to work on that. As for the actual design of the magazine, I based it off of the film magazine "Empire" and used similar motifs as them and which conventions to follow. The colour scheme I just chose because I knew my cover would have a black background so I wanted something that went well with that, and red seemed to be a good choice so I went with that.Overall I do see a lot of room for improvement for this cover, particularly with the character picture and the font of the text (which just doesn't look right to me), so while I am okay with this being the first draft of my magazine cover, for the finished product I would need to make some serious changes.