Film Magazine Reasearch

Movie Magazine research

As part of my project, the brief includes producing a magazine front cover advertising the film my partner and I have produced.

From my research I have found two popular magazines which specify in new film releases. The two magazines are Total film magazine and Empire.

Empire Magazine

Empire is a British film magazine published monthly by Bauer Consumer Media. From the first issue in July 1989, the magazine was edited by Barry McIlheney and published by Emap. Bauer purchased Emap Consumer Media in early 2008. It is the biggest selling film magazine in Britain, consistently outselling its nearest market rival Total Film and is also published in Australia, Turkey and Russia. Empire organises the annual Empire Awards which were sponsored by Sony Ericsson until 2009 and are now sponsored by Jameson. The awards are voted for by readers of the magazine.

Total Film

Total Film is a British film magazine published 13 times a year which is every four weeks, by Future Publishing. The magazine launched itself in 1997 and offers film, DVD and Blu-ray news, reviews and features. It is one of the largest circulation English-speaking film magazines in the world. Guest editors have included Peter Jackson, Kevin Smith, and Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant.

As part of our course we have to produce a magazine cover featuring the movie we are creating. I thought it was relevant to do my own primary research on what people who like to see on the front of a movie magazine, therefore I did a small survey asking people who were my target audience.

I also noticed some of the conventions which stood out to me when I was analysising each cover of the Total Film magazines.
After Looking at them, I thought that the main conventionw which I would like to include on my Magazine are the Lure, and Sell lines and Masthead, from look at the Total Film magazines, these are the convention of the magazines which stood out to me the most.

These three images, show the Lures which are included on the Total film magazines. They are from different magazines, however I think this will be part of my inspiration when producing my magazine front cover. I will produce something similar to lure my target audience.

After analysing my audiences feedback, I then thought it would be appropriate to create another survey, asking my target audience what title they preferred for a movie magazine. Therefore, chose a few ideas for my title and surveyed my target audience to see what they preferred. This was the outcome:

· FEATURE FILM

· INSIGHT

These are the two titles which I prefer, as an apprieciate title. I'll ask around my target audience to survey which title they prefer.