Analysing Film Magzines

 

Title

The magazine is called total film as it tells film geeks that this magazine will have all they want to know and that it covers all aspects of film. Significant cover line word on this front cover include 'free' as it i bold letters and it will encourage others to get it as they are getting something for free, the puff 'world exclusive' suggest the best, and that people all over the world will be interested in this segment of the magazine. The words 'plus' suggest extra and that there is lots information and lots to read about.

Publisher
Future publishing publish Total Film. They also publish SFX, SFX Presents and Comic Heros. Future publishing are also interested in technology ,computing ,games ,music, photography and much more. The film magazine costs £3.99 per issue, they are released monthly and also have limited/ special editions each season. Total film have a website, www.totalfilm.com, this make it easy for their target audience to reach out to them.

Target Audience
Total films target audience are film fanatics however one each issue they will also attract different target audiences depending on the film, it they love the film they will buy it, i.e. someone who has an interested in Star wars will buy their summer 2014 issue 221. Their main target audience is males in there early twenties, they are targeted by text as it says 'iron man' 'harry potter' 'Tron Legacy' 'Scott Pilgrim' 'interception' 'toy story 3' 'robin hood' and 'kick-ass', these are all action films and even thought toy story is for the younger generation it will still about action and the target audience now would have grown up with toy story. They are also using a sans serif front which is strong and straight and masculine. The audience can connect with the magazine through their website as they have links to their twitter, facebook and youtube etc.

Front Cover
The only image on this front cover of Total film is of Johnny deep as the mad hatter; it is colourful and bright and therefore will attract an audience. he is wide eyed showing him as loopy, this shows the audience what his character is like, his clothing is also slightly strange and it looks like little piece of materials stuck together showing he is not normal. This will show the viewer his personality and that the film will be strange.

Style Presentation Of The Magazine
Total films style of magazine is simple in the fact it mostly only has one image, however it also has a lot of text meaning they can inform their audience what will be included in the magazine. Normally Total Film magazine do not look cheap or expensive however the limited/ special additions do for example summer 2014 issue number 221 and it has gold out lines of text boxes.