Research into similar products: Ancillary products: Empire magazine

Up until now i have only really dedicated my time to the film trailer that i will be creating so i thought that now it would be a good time to look into what my magazine would look like and who would be making it.

For my magazine i have chosen EMPIRE magazine would be the most suitable magazine for my film.



Empire magazine features reviews on the worlds mainstream movies and art films. This allows it to be appealing to a wide variety of all audiences. What i liked is that empire does issues on movies from all types of movie genres such as action, comedy and horror/thriller which of course makes it perfect for my film.  My film is not an small independent movie which i felt made it not suitable for "little white lies" and also my film is not the big Hollywood blockbuster made by "total film" and is incase something in the middle so i felt that Empire magazine would be the perfect chose to represent and promote the movie.

So now that i have chosen empire magazine to be creating the front cover of my magazine i decided to look into previous covers specifically those of the thriller/horror genre.

So when looking into empires magazine covers these covers were the ones that stuck out immediately to me due to their use of colours and conventions. The magazine as you can see usually has a large masthead so the audience can identify the magazine and some issues the main image will slightly cover the masthead. There are also cover lines included and the amount depends on what the overall front cover is designed like. Obviously i will need to do some more research into empire magazine and also film magazine conventions as a whole.