3. Empire is the first magazine that we have researched into and this is because
it is such a popular film magazine, and is probably the most well known. We
felt as though this were a good place to start. However after researching into
the magazine we found that they rarely featured films that were not
produced from major studios. We also found that they had never really
featured any short films and focussed mainly on popular films in the media
rather than the more independent films that we were focussing on. However
we did pick up some ideas from empire and we also looked at how they
positioned the main characters on the front page, we took this and brought it
with us.
4. Total Films Magazine
We started researching total film alongside our research of empire and
found almost the same problem, although total film did focus a lot more
on independent films than empire did, we were still not really that
interested in its layout which was quite busy and expressed
connotations of the film being an action genre rather than its actual
genre. Which was not something that we were interested in taking part
in, however it was interesting to find another more popular film
magazine that did feature some more independent films, this really
inspired confidence in us, however it was not exactly what we were
looking for.
6. When we started our magazine research we knew that we wanted to use a magazine
that was completely independent, however we stated looking at magazine such as
empire and total film to gain a knowledge of magazine readership and also the layout
of the specific magazines. However after a bit of research we found that neither were
really applicable to our own short film as empire and total both do not on the whole
do not feature any kind of short film and this is of course because they are not as
recognised in the film industry as many of the normal length films that occupy
societies film industry at the present time. We knew that this is life would be out of
place to be fit into empire or total film and so we started searching for other
independent/ niche film magazines that would be more suitable for our short film.
And this is when we found little white lies. We were instantly enamoured with this
beautiful magazine that not only featured, feature length films but also short films,
and more indie/ niche full length films. We liked how quirky their style was and how
the did not have a specific theme except for the constant artistic interpretations of the
film posters. After researching further in to their website we found that they produced
exactly the sort of content that we were looking for. We were also excited about thw
artistic interpretation side and we are very enthusiastic about the art side of our short
film and have entertained throughout the project our own specific style and
illustrations, linking of course to our ident.
8. This is the final film magazine that we researched, it is alike to little white
lies as it is another independent film magazine. We did really like its style
and its layout, and if it weren’t for us finding little white lies I believe that
we would have chosen sight and sound to be the magazine that we chose.
It was very near to the style that we were looking for as they edited their
own front covers in an artistic way. However it we both believed that it did
not catch the ye the same way that little white lies did, we found that its
layout although different and artistic was a bit boring and dull, especially in
their colour choices. In our magazine we want colour and for it to shout out
at you, letting the cover describe the story which was something that we
admired in little white lies.
