Winters Bone reviewed by The Times Culture Magazine

The purpose of a magazine review is to tell future audiences about the film, its release date and to persuade them to see it. the types of magazine reviews exist are positive/negative. The review is laid out fairly simply in mainly black and white, with a small amount of blue and red. It has a page number at the bottom corner of the page, but apart from that its only about the film, with no magazine references at all. This probably because it comes with The Times newspaper which contains all of its Institutional references. The ratio on this piece is half text and half showing an image from the film. The target audience for this magazine would be middle to upper class people with a good education. The mode of address targets its particular audience targeted, by speaking to them in a complex and intelligent way. The film Winters Bone, looks very serious and complex which will compliment the magazines target audience. This magazine review uses a variety of writing styles, to keep it’s intelligent audience entertained.