Total Film is a UK-based film magazine that is published 13 times a year offering cinema, DVD, and Blu-ray news and reviews. It is available both in print and interactive iPad editions. Total Film's website contains a database of every movie review featured in the magazine and allows users to subscribe to a weekly newsletter, comment on articles, and share content on social media. Traffic on TotalFilm.com is growing with over 2.5 million unique users and 40 million page views per month, and its social media presence has over 450,000 followers across platforms. The document concludes that the writer's group chose Total Film as the magazine to inspire their cover over Empire because Total Film better fits their film's genre of psychological

1. Choosing Our Magazine

2. Empire’s History
Empire is a British film magazine that is published monthly by
Bauer Consumer Media. ‘Empire’ is one of the biggest selling film
magazine companies in the UK and is also published in other
parts of the world such as the USA, Portugal, Turkey and Russia.
Empire is a populist in both approach and coverage. It reviews
both mainstream and art films, but feature articles concentrate
on the former. As well as film news and reviews and previews,
Empire has some other regular features. Each issue feature’s a
‘classic scene’ from a notable film scene.

3. Total Film’s History
Total film is a UK based film magazine which is published 13 times a year.
The magazine was launched in 1997 and offers cinema, DVD and Blu-ray
news and reviews. Total film is available both on print and interactive I-
pad editions. Total Film’s website contains a database of every movie
review featured in the magazine. Users of the website can subscribe to a
weekly newsletter, featuring a 10-point rundown of the week's essential
news, reviews and features, as well as competitions and free screenings
RSS Feeds are available for: news, reviews, features and films coming
soon. Users can also comment on any of the articles included on the
website, as well as retweeting on Twitter and sharing on Facebook. Traffic
on Totalfilm.com is growing exponentially, with 2.5m unique users and 40
million page views a month. Its social media presence also continues to
grow, with a highly engaged audience of over 450k followers across
Facebook, Twitter and Tumblr

4. My group and I have decided that Total Film is
the film magazine we have chosen to inspire our
magazine cover because it fits better with our
film’s genre (psychological thriller) in our
opinion and we prefer their layout and the
general image that they portray.