Lighting: The lighting emits through the Tomb Raider logo in the background and creates lines that create leading lines for our eyes to follow back to Lara Croft.

Props: There are two Desert Eagle pistols that Croft is wielding. This can symbolise that she is holding smaller and worse quality guns in comparison to men in game covers who hold bigger and more powerful guns creating gender stereotypes in the sense that woman can hold guns but only small ones.

Costume: Lara Croft wears very little clothes such as tank tops and short shorts so her body and figure is shown. This is used so the male audience is drawn in so more copies are sold.

Colour: She is wearing very bland and beige to match her environment of the outdoors.

Facial expression: Lara croft is looking confident and in incontrol to show dominance and authority to contradict the male stereotype.

Body Language: Croft is posed in a manner that she shows off her figure to draw the male audience to play the game.

GAME COVER SEMIOTICS: TOMB RAIDER (CINEMATOGRAPHY)

Camera angle: In the image the camera angle is a body shot from a lower height showing signs of a worms eye view to show off Crofts physical features in a sexual manner to attract the male audience from a slightly lower angle looking up.

Shot Type: Medium long shot to show Crofts full body and figure.

GAME COVER SEMIOTICS: TOMB RAIDER (TYPOLOGY)

Font: The font starts small and increases for the key words of “Tomb Raider” with a bold font to increase its presence.

Colour: The background is black with bright lights shining through the logo which is dispersed out to the side of the image. The clothing is bland boring colours to contract with the background