Reflection on learning from Film Magazines.

Through researching into several film magazines we have discovered some fundamental elements that we will need to consider when creating our own magazine. The colour scheme is very important in order to allow certain information to be clear when reading text as this will influence the reader into buying their magazine based upon the information it is likely to hold inside. We will need to decide this colour scheme using information within our movie, for example, if our genre was to be Horror is is fairly likely that red and black will be a pro dominant colours as it reflects upon the blood/gore and the dark. In the magazines we have looked at it seems that a separate photoshoot will be necessary to give a more detailed picture into the characters and the costume used in the film will need to correspond to allow continuity between magazine and film. Alternatively, we could focus the magazine upon the actor (director in some cases) within the film as a detailed insight into them and the making rather than a specific review of the movie as a production.

We will need to create an original name for our magazine but make sure that it connects to the visual and entertainment of film. This title will need to be able to be distributed in each issue. We should look more closely at the way 'Sight & Sound' was produced with more simplicity, as we do not have the higher budget of 'Empire' and 'Total Film'. We should also create some evidence to making a subscription to our magazine as this would be a positive step towards more sales.