One of our ancillary tasks is to produce a film magazine front cover featuring out film trailer. I have looked and researched film magazines to find out what they consist of and what you would typically find in them.
One film magazine i have looked at is the 'Skymovies' magazine which people who have sky and skymovies will recieve each month.
There are different sections to the magazine- Consists of the months premieres so which films are being shown for the first time within the month.
- Has news about new films that are being released
- Film reviews
- competitions
- Has different sections for different genre's eg: Comedy, Action/thriller, Family, Drama, Sci-Fi/ Horror, Classics, Modern greats and Indie.
- The front cover of the magazine is themed for the season/ time of year, the most recent 'Skymovies' magazine (christmas 2009) has a christmas theme.
- There is a dark backround with lighter writing on it, eg: dark blue background and light blue/white writing on it.
- This front coverhas the website on the front aswell 'www.skymovies.com
- Has the date and the issue number
- has some infomation on thr front cover as to what is included in the magazine and has some big star names.
- The cast from madagasca on the front, they are well know so a lot of people will be able to relate to it.
Another magazine i have looked at is the sky magazine.
This magazine consists of the same things that the skymovies magazine consists of.- The front cover has the same colour pattern, its a black background with stars (due to the theme of christmas) with white writing over the top of it.
- 'sky' is in different writing, the font is large and bold, in a different colour to the rest of the writing.
- again its telling the reader what is inside the magazine, trying to attract the reader to read more of it.
- Also the person in the front cover is Daniel Craig, who is a well known actor which could also be attracting the reader to read more and watch the films that are being advertised inside the magazine.
- Again this film magazine features a character from a film and is most likely trying to promote the film.
The writing on the 'Empire' film magazines is most of the time in the same font however it may be a different colour depending on what the film is actually featuring, this magazine is a prime example. There is a photo of 'Iron Man' on the front and he is obviously very powerful and strong therefore the text on the front cover of this magazine has been altered to make is stand out and make it fit in well with the theme of 'Iron Man'. The writing has a glow effect on it which also links in with the glow light which is in the middle of his body.- The magazine front cover has things such as ' The ultimate review of 2009' which is bound to attract a reader.
- Likemost magazines, it has the date, and cost in the top left hand corner, which is typical for any magazine whether it is film or not.
- The front cover includes a tag line for the film 'Iron Man' whih is 'new suit. new enemies. same attitude'
- After that it also says 'THREE AMAZING EXCLUSIVES' which is also put in to attract a reader as the magazine front cover is telling the reader what else is in the magazine itself.
- The colours of the film front cover are dark and powerful which again will link in with the theme of it 'Iron Man'
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