Magazine Textual Analysis, Conventions and Our Inspiration

This is how we want our outcome to be like. The film

magazine promotes the film in a simple yet stylish way.

We have chosen a magazine front cover as one of our subsidiary tasks which will be one of the ways we promote our film, as well as a poster to go with the trailer.
I have been researching film magazines and posters and I will be doing a textual analysis.
I have chosen some magazines here that are similar to what I want my outcome to be like.
For example, most of the magazine covers in this blog are actresses in interviews speaking about
their most recent roles and promoting their work, which is what we will be doing too.

As you can see from the Johnny Deep magazine that film magazines don't have to be glamorous and they often are not. The actor is commonly in role or character dressed as the character they are playing, this helps advertise the film and will ultimately increase sales. We could do this and have Charlotte on the cover looking sinister but we might want to save these sort of shots for the actual poster itself.

Also, one of the most important things is what genre it is. Because of our target audience in our trailer, we have to think carefully what we want our magazine to look like. We reckon the ages of our target audience is around 15-40. It is quite a large age range but we thought that the type of film can appeal to teenagers and adults too. We think this because it is a combination of a lot of different genres and has a wide range of themes in it (love, obsession, jealousy, blood and a bit of gore, hatred and more) - it touches on a lot of themes therefore has something for everyone.
However, we have come to the conclusions both male and female teens would watch it but as the age range gets older, we believe it is more female dominant. Males would still be interested however in reading film magazines, therefore it will have to appeal to both genders and a wide variety of ages.

Our protagonists are both females therefore will be promoting the film and one will be on the magazine cover.
The conventions of magazine covers are fairly straight forward and easy to point out if you are use to analysing texts (something which i am very familiar with!)

A magazine has to be eye-catching and appealing to specific audiences. For example, if the magazine is of a music genre, a popular band would appeal to a large audience therefore increase sales. Here, famous actresses and actors are on the cover such as Drew Barrymore, Johnny Deep in Sweeney Tod, Beyonce, are on the front cover, these are all very popular celebrities therefore people will want to read the magazines.

A magazine (This is any type) would tend to have...
The main title (Masthead), A tag line, a main picture usually a attractive male or female which are famous in some way, sometimes smaller pictures showing what else is included, contain the date/bar code and issue number, cover line, often free things are given away for audience pleasure, teasers, plugs such as PLUS! and interviews. Film magazines are usually set out in a clear way, with informtion either side of the picture and along the bottom. It is usually not too detailed and fonts are only changed to make words stand out, we hope to take these ideas and use them ourself!



We could make our magazine simpler for effect like the one above (Beyonce) this is more common to a film magazine rather than a music or glamour magazine. We really like the simple effect the magazine has. Especially the contrast between black and white image and a bold colour, we may use this in ours!
You can see from the magazine they all have a particular In-house style and this would be consistent with every issue, giving the magazine its individual look.