The document discusses the purpose and conventions of magazine film reviews. Magazine reviews provide synopses and professional opinions on upcoming films to help audiences decide if a film matches their tastes. Reviews typically include the film's title, release date, credits, a tagline, and sections summarizing the plot and assessing positive and negative aspects. Reviews aim to market films while presenting unbiased opinions, though different magazines may have differing views. Conventions include using large bold titles, images, star ratings, and focusing on narrative, characters, and technical elements.

1. MAGAZINE REVIEW
ANALYSIS

2. WHAT IS A MAGAZINE REVIEW?
 Magazine film review provides information and
professional opinions about films about to be released.
 Provide synopsis of a film.
 Opinions on actors in the film, commentary on the
narrative and opinion on the overall making of the film can
also be found in magazine reviews.
 Presents unbiased reviews of a film.
 Introduce themes and subject matter helping people
understand whether film is of their taste or not.
 Another purpose is to market the film in a similar way to
the poster & to sell the film to the audience.
 Its important to note that different magazines will have
different opinions about a particular film.

3. Codes & Conventions
 Film Title – is usually in a large, bold font.
 Release Date
 Further details - Genre, and then credits such as Director,
Screenplay, Cast, Sound Track.
 Film Tagline or Quote/reference - from the actual film
utilized as a good introduction/gives greater knowledge about
the film to the audience.
 Text Body – Intro & Summary, Plot, Aspects
 Intro & Summary – It is very conventional to see short
summary of the film in the first paragraph. It will include
aspects of the timeline, location, and the actual narrative.
 Plot – Second paragraph continues with the synopsis of the
film with emphasis on the actual plot. Few references are
given to end it so that the film isn’t ruined for the audience.

4.  Aspects – The next paragraph of the film is likely to highlight its
positive aspects. It focuses on mise-en-scene, story, setting, music,
effects used. This is then followed by a paragraph containing the
negative aspects of the film.
 Ratings – To summarize the review, a star rating out of 5 is given
at the end.
 Enlarged letter - Increased size for the first letter of the review
 Authors' name – of the article is usually at the bottom of the
page.
 Images – with captions are usually placed at the top left hand
corner to attract the audience. Sometimes the image covers one
page of the magazine too.
 Verdict –
 Italics for codes
 Page numbers

5. SPIDER-MAN-2 MAGAZINE REVIEW
ANALYSIS
Main image
dominating
the second
page
Verdict and Star
Rating
Film
Tagline
Title of film
is in large,
bold font
with age
restriction.
Quotes are used
in text body
Image stating
facts and ratings
about the film
Important
details
about the
film –
Director,
Cast,
Screenplay,
Distributor
and
Running
time
Story
Page
number
Masthead is
clearly
indicated
through
formatted font
Enlarged
letter
Bleed
Text
Faint
border
Magazine
section
Recommendations
Body text

6. MY MAGAZINE REVIEW – FROM PRADA TO
NADA
Film Title
Ratings
Body text
Page
number
Important
details –
cast,
director,
duration,
genre.Age
restriction
Attractive
images

7. ABOUT MY MAGAZINE REVIEW
 In order to make this magazine review on the film “From
Prada to Nada”, I had to investigate the codes and
conventions of magazine reviews. Therefore now I have a
much better understanding about the elements found in
a traditional review.
 Now I can easily design a magazine review for my final
film but I think I need to research the style of writing the
actual content of the text body.
 Although I tried to incorporate the main elements of a
traditional review in the one I made, but I stilled missed
out on enlarged letter, film tagline, month etc so I’ll try to
improve and make sure my final film magazine review
contains all the elements.

8. REFERENCES
 http://gunnersburya2media2011group2d.blogspot.c
om/2011/01/purpose-of-magazine-film-review.html
 http://www.slideshare.net/tds14/codes-
conventions-of-short-film-reviews
 http://stevenjonesa2media.blogspot.com/2010/11/c
odes-and-conventions-of-film-magazine.html

9. MADE BY
HAMNA IQBAL BAIG