The document discusses magazines focused on film. It provides details on several magazines, including their target audiences. Empire magazine's target audience is ages 16-30, skewed towards men from middle-class backgrounds. The Filmmaker magazine has a similar audience but focuses more on independent films. The document suggests The Filmmaker magazine would be best suited to feature the film discussed due to its independent film focus. It also examines conventions for magazine front covers, including prominent placement of the film title and main character.

1. Magazine Research

2. Film Magazine Research
Guardian Unlimited Film - Film news and reviews from the Guardian and Observer newspapers.
Empire - Features news, reviews, top movies, upcoming releases, box office results (UK), forum, and more.
movieScope - Magazine explores the various aspects of filmmaking from the perspective of the filmmakers themselves.
The Filmmaker Magazine - Filmmaker magazine is a quarterly publication magazine covering issues relating to independent film.
Rotten Tomatoes - Reviews and previews of Hollywood movies and videos from the nation's critics.
The purpose of a front cover is that it functions to entice readers to buy a magazine. I believe the front cover is the most important
element of a magazine. It is the part that is first shown to the consumer. If a cover is attractive they are most likely to pick up the
magazine. A cover should be brights and vibrant to attract most customers thus resulting in them purchasing it.

3. Film Magazine Research
Target Audience
Empire Magazine - The Target audience of The Empire Film Magazine is from ages 16 - 30 years old. The gender of the
audience is skewed towards men with the majority of the audience in the middle class.
The filmmaker magazine also has a similar target audience to the empire magazine, however, the taste of the audience is
likely to be more indie and alternative. This is because the filmmaker magazine only publishes independent films.
I think that the magazine cover that is most likely to feature out film is the filmmaker magazine. This is because although the
genre is slightly less suited to the film, the fact that they only feature independent films, this will suit our film and budget
more.

4. Empire magazine
Empire is a British film magazine published monthly. It is seen to be one of the most popular film magazines today due to its attention from
big film companies. It covers various different branches of entertainment and is known to be available not only online but also on magazine,
podcast, website, digital edition and live events strand, nobody speaks to more film fans across the world with more authority. Empire
collaborate with the biggest film studios and distributors and world-class filmmakers and actors to create content. They are seen to be very
successful because of what they offer for the consumers. They offer a wide range which is respected highly as it can reach a wider target
audience. Their layout of the magazine is fairly similar to all created however they make the genre and character adapt to the layout of the
cover. No matter who is on the cover their main company name will always be displayed clearly along with the image and film name. I
believe that the Title Empire is their USP as it is pretty much the same to other magazine covers created by them however have different
colours. The genre of what Empire normally works with is serious films. This could include dramas, action or horror movies. This reveals how
their target audience is most likely to be in the gender of male than female due to the stereotypical view of how males are more into action
than females.

5. Total Film
Total Film is another British film magazine company, who only publish 13 times a year. They publish once a month publishing a variety of
features of a film for their readers. One of their main features is how they publish interviews from actors,actresses and directors that are 6
pages long in depth. Social Media is one aspect that the magazine really gets involved with. This is a way for them to connect with their
audience more and get feedback which can benefit their next edition that they release the following month. As they market by using the
internet this could be why their target audience for the magazine is fairly young.

6. House style

7. Front Cover Conventions

8. Front Cover Analysis
House style of
empire magazine
with the title behind
the main character.
This also includes
the same text font,
size and position
creating clear
branding that
makes the
magazine easily
recognisable
Additional
information as
to what is in
the magazine
Film title large at the bottom
of the page.
Main character from
film in the centre of
the frame. Giving
the main character
the most attention of
the viewer due to
positioning and
framing.

9. Drafting/ layout design
(jake to do…)