A2 Media StudiesAncillary Tasks

1: Film Poster 2a: Film magazine front cover featuring the film

2b: Film magazine review page featuring the film

A2 Media StudiesAncillary Tasks

1: Film Poster 2a: Film magazine front cover featuring the film2b: Film magazine review

page featuring the film

Website

Masthead

Main Image

Main Coverline

Coverline(behind the

scenes)

Puffs (Stills)

Bar codeLeft Third

Dateline & Cover Price

Top Third

Puff (logo)

Coverlines

A2 Media StudiesAncillary Tasks

2a: Film magazine front cover featuring the film

2b: Film magazine review page featuring

the film

How to research a new magazine?

First, find a publisher…

Empire Magazine is owned by The Bauer Publishing Group.

Bauer is the largest privately owned publisher in Europe, publishing in Germany, France, Spain, Portugal and the United Kingdom. Additionally, Bauer publishes in the United States and Mexico. The Bauer Publishing Group was founded in Hamburg in 1875 by Johann Bauer. Under the management of four generations of the Bauer family. The Bauer Publishing Group has grown from its humble beginnings as a printing house into a worldwide publishing empire comprising 282 magazines in 15 countries with 6,600 employees worldwide and annual turnover of 1.79 billion Euro.

Genre?

http://www.bauermedia.co.uk/brands#2

Audience?

http://www.bauermedia.co.uk/Brands/Empire/

A – Upper middle class – senior professional

B – Middle class – professionals

C1 – Lower middle class – white collar administrative workers

C2 – Lower middle class – blue collar skilled workers

D – Unskilled or semi-skilled workers

E – Unemployed, students

Purpose?

Stylistic conventions for the review page.

How to write a magazine film review page?

First, look at examples from the real world…

Image

Text or Copy

Text or Copy

Film Title

Subheading

Film Details

Plot summary (with actors introduced in

parentheses)

Insert

Summary

5 star grading system

Background details

Affluent male movie fans?

Rewrite the opening

paragraph as a glowing

comparison between this film and The Lord of the

Rings