Total Film and Empire Magazine Review Pages

Here is a Prezi that looks in detail at two pages from Total Film and Empire magazine. the Prezi attempts to explain the codes and conventions in which we have looked at as well as informing to what is possible and would work well with our own film and its subsequent review.

Empire and Total Film Review Pages

Empire & Total Film Review Pages

Total Film Review Pages

 

Here are 9 Total Film review pages that we have looked at, individually within our group we have looked at 3 of these pages each, alongside the Empire review pages we have looked at a total of 24 film review pages.

Empire Review Pages

 

 

Here are 17 film review pages that we looked at that we found within the film magazine Empire.

Total Film Review Notes

Page layout

-          Some reviews are longer than others, making it more text dense as opposed to picture heavy. Stills of the film are used as backgrounds, and limited in other aspects.

-          Typography; black text white background

-          Rating system on some of the film reviews

Written techniques

-          Formal writing style

-          Sums up the film; positives and negatives

-          Primarily critical

Empire Film Review Notes

      Page layout

-          The majority of major films seem to be double page spreads

-          Stills from the movie occupy the majority of the page

-          Half of the page is text, other half is often used a picture, or the image is used as a background

-          Typography; mainly black text on white background

-          Colour is used in headings and subheadings for emphasis

Written techniques

-          Colloquial; starts with brief explanation along with history of theme, genre, director etc.

-          Moves onto interview style through use of quotes from actors and directors

-          Analysis of the effectiveness of the film; good and bad points

-          No ratings