Film Magazines

Our film is going to be British, low budget, and using non-actors and no special effects. As part of out coursework we have to produce a front cover of a film based magazine and a poster promoting our film trailer.

I have researched Sight & Sound Magazine which is a published monthly by the British Film Institute. Sight & Sound reviews all film releases each month including those with a narrow art house release, as aposed to the more mainstream focus of it compettitors.

The background of the front cover of Sight & Sound consists of just one image, which makes it less complicated and makes the audience focus on the main feature. The main title is bright and attractive, and makes it stand out. It is the same layout every month which continues the following audience.

Empire magazine is a British film magazine published monthly by Bauer Consumer media. It is the biggest film magazine in Britain consistently outselling its nearest market rival Total Film and is also published in Australia, Turkey and Russia. It reviews both mainstream films, and art films.

Total Film magazine, published by Future Publishing is the United Kingdoms best selling film magazine. It offers film and DVD news, reviews, and features. It was launched in 1997 and is published every 4 weeks. It has major sections with screening films. Major releases recieve comprehensive coverage, with a star rating out of five, and the magazines own predicted curve. Also briefly mentioned are similar recomendations under ''See this if you liked..''. Smaller films recieve a concise review and rating. The end section is devoted to the current US and UK box office charts.

British Film Magazine shows all the British films that will be making the headline in the coming months. Its aim when it was first launched was to cover all the aspects of the film industry. However, the magazine company soon found out that there was too much to cover and decided to be selective with what they covered. The editor is Terence Doyle who aims the product at a 50,000 circulation, more than the trade titles but fewer than the 205,000 that Empire sells every month.

This would be a suitable audience to aim our film at. As I said before, out film doesn't include big named actors, and this magazine doesn't focus on the big budget films.