Magazine Review Analysis

The town review by Empire magazine

Cemetery Junction reviewed by Empire Magazine

This review has a nice layout, with a large use of colour when appropriate to brighten up the page. The colours it uses are yellow and blue which contrast so have an attention grabbing quality, the are also quite cheerful colours which aren’t gender specific, which reflects their wide audience of both genders. It has a page number at the bottom corner of the page along with the magazines name and date of issue. The page shows a picture from the film covering half the page and text covering the other half. The writing styles are used are quite simple and to the point, clearly written for people who have an interest in media products. The image used from the film shows some of the characters and it also has some writing explaining the picture. The obvious conventions of a magazine review it uses are the star rating at the end of the text and quotes from the film written in bold.

This article for Empire magazine is about the town, film. It has a big image with a large font saying the name “The Town” in capitals. Both of these features grab the audience’s attention and suck them in. The images used back up what the text is saying and stops it from looking dull.
The text is clearly written for film lovers as it links in other films with similarities (the other film Affleck produced) expecting the reader to know of them, without explanation or description. The review is positive and cheerful and is clearly written by a Ben Affleck fan. It state the genre and some of the plot with quotes weaved in when relevant to the film. It shows quotes from a short interview with Jeremy Runner one of the cast members to finish.
The images all contain a small sentence explaining the picture so its clear to someone who hasn’t watched the film. It’s obviously written to persuade its audience to watch the film as it shows it in a very positive light.
The magazine shows good quotes in bold so it makes more of an impression on the reader. The colours highlight important features to make them stand out it also makes the whole page look more interesting to the reader

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.

Magazine review analysis

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