Film Magazines

Sophie Cavanagh

List of the UK film magazines I am going to analyse:

Empire Total Film Sight & Sound Uncut sfx

Empire website

Empire is a British film magazine published by Bauer Consumer Media.

It is the biggest selling film magazine in Britain but is aimed at a mass market, Empire’s international footprint now extends to six global markets

Main editor at the moment is Mark Dinning but they have eight editors at empire

Each issue costs £3.99Published on a monthly basis There is no set target audience it is more about who is

interested in the film which they are talking about however the age range is 15-45

Total Film is a British film magazine published 13 times a year (every four weeks) by Future publishing.It is the second-biggest selling film magazine in Britain, after empire Download the total film magazine app from Newsstand on iTunes. Single issues: £1.99 eachTotal Film costs £ 3.50 In July total film webpage delivered a record 33.4 million global page views, up 226% year-on-year and 2.1 million global unique users, up 112% year-on-yearLee Nutter is the Publisher of Total Film

Total Film website

Sight & Sound website

Sight & Sound is monthly published by the British film institute (BFI).

published monthly by the British Film Institute.

This magazine is mainly aimed at the older audience who want to read into more depth about the film and it is a mix gender magazine.

The colour scheme is bright and colourfully making it stand out on the selves

Monthly publication based in London

The Company that publish uncut are IPC Media Editor Allan Jones

• £3.99 per issue

• Target audience is aimed at 25-45 year old males.

• Even though it is a UK magazine is it available worldwide in English speaking countries

• Uncut conveys that is it going to cut into more detail about the films and give all information possible

both good and bad.

Uncut website

SFX magazine is published every four weeks  by  future publishing

The magazine covers topics in the genres of popular science fiction, fantasy and horror, within the media of films, television, videogames, comics and literature.

According to the magazine's website, the SF stands for "science fiction", but the X may stand for anything.

The magazine costs £4.50