Research and Planning: Analysis of a film magazine 1

Today we looked at film magazine covers that matched the genre of our film as we need to create our own magazine cover. As we are doing a horror so I chose to look at different horror films which are on magazine covers. The first one I chose to write about was 'The exorcist.'

Conventions of a film magazine.

• The main picture shows a long shot of a scene in the film and a man stood there in black, which creates a mystery to the audience
• The main colour scheme is red which suggests a horror

Narrative

• The headlines and the subheadings don't really narrate to the audience much about the film as it's a suggestive seller as the reader will want to know more about the film
• The man staring at the house suggests that something is going to happen in the house.

Audience

• The audience of this film is passive
• The Socio-economic grouping of this film is E
• The age group for this film is for people over the ages of 15, but more for teenagers to the ages of 25. I don't think people in more of a high level grouping would want to watch this film.
• The audience for this film I think will be more for the boys as I think that with the genre of horror more appeals to them