As I am doing a short film, one of the ancillary texts i'm doing is a magazine article reviewing the film. As I don't read many magazines I have researched the forms and conventions of making an effective and gripping review article. For this research the best source to use was Empire Magazine. Empire Magazine is a British magazine which focuses on the latest films and giving them reviews. As they're Britain's leading film magazine company they're reviews are good to look at. From the articles I've seen it seems that the image used is important. On the majority of the reviews the image takes up a lot of space on the double page spread, in some cases it takes up 50% of the article. The image tends to either be a direct extract from the film or will be closely associated with the films poster. Along with this picture there needs to be a substantial amount of text reviewing the film. This text has the goal of helping the reader decide on whether they want to see the film or not. Therefore, there needs to be basic information about the film along with the positives and negatives of the film. These image and the substantial text are the main two parts of the review however there are other smaller things which make an effective review stand out from the rest. The image below show some of these features, including important details of the film (release date etc.) and a tagline to summarise the review.
To make an effective magazine review I will have to take all this into account and then apply it to my review. Below are a few examples which I will use as inspiration towards my final magazine review. As my film is a thriller, this will need to be shown through the design such as the colours used and the font chosen.
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