The document summarizes what the author learned from reviewing film reviews in two issues of the magazine Empire. In the first issue from October 2011, the author read a review of the crime film Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows that discussed how the film needed to have its own style rather than copying the popular TV show. The second issue from May 2012 reviewed the action/thriller The Dark Knight Rises and also focused on how it would live up to its predecessor and couldn't rely on the same formula as fans would notice. The main lessons for the author's own project were about the importance of originality and bold new ideas rather than conventions or sticking to set formulas.

1. I looked through some copies of the filmmagazine ‘Empire’ the images above are the issues
I looked through.
I did this to look at filmreviews of the same genre as my
project to find out what I should avoid and what I should try
to include in my project. In the first magazine on the left I
looked at a review of the film; Sherlock Holmes: A game of
Shadows. This filmis a crime genre film which is the same
genre that I want to achieve. The date this issue came out
was October 2011. The article is mainly about how the filmis
going to live up to the TV show ‘Sherlock’. A lot of the article
is opinion of the author and the main point they are trying to
get across is that this film has to have its own style and its
own style rather than copying the
very popular TV show.
The magazine on the right I looked at a film review of; The Dark
Knight Rises. This is a /Action/thriller/crime film. A similarity
between these two articles is they are both on films that are a
direct sequel to their predecessor. They both had the challenge of
coming after an already well received film. So the majority of the
article talks about how they will live up to the original. So it gives

2. quite a few ways on how to make it bigger and better and I could take some of this advice
on board when it comes to my project. This issue was released May 2012. The author of this
article is quite similarly to the Sherlock Holmes article talking about how the villain ‘Bane’ by
Tom Hardy is going to live up to Heath Ledger’s ‘Joker’ performance which won him an
Oscar. They talk about how in this film they can’t go for the same formula because how
much the fans liked it they will spot it straight away so this filmhas to be completely new.
The main points I took from these magazines were about originality and how having bold
and new ideas is important rather than going for conventions all the time and sticking to the
formula pre-set by classic films.