Magazine reviews

In order to advertise my film we were told to make a magazine review, in order to do this I decided to look at other film reviews in some well established magazines and see what I liked, didn't like so I could then decide what I wanted my magazine review to have in it. The magazines reviews I looked at were 'Spider Man 2', 'Avatar' and finally 'Twilight'.

Spider Man 2

This is a magazine review of the film spider man 2. There are many things I both like and dislike about this review, the first thing I like is the picture on the right hand page, from this it shows you so much about the film, it shows the main character, What Spider man actually is and what genre the film will be, which is clearly an action. So for someone who has never seen spider man before they would be able to take a lot away from the picture alone. One thing I do dislike is where is says spider man 2, in my opinion this isn't big or bold enough and should stand out way more than it is doing, that way readers would remember it much more in my opinion. The second thing which I like about this is the verdict part at the bottom, here the editor writes his conclusion on the film, along with a star rating, which in this case was the full five stars. I think I will add something like that in my film so readers can see quickly whether it is worth a watch or not. There is also a short synopsis of what happens in this film so people can find out what the story is before they go and see it for themselves, this means if they find the synopsis interesting then they will be more likely to go and see them film to find out what its like.


Avatar

The second magazine review I looked at was on the film 'Avatar', this was the first big 3D film ever released, smashing the box office with $1.6bn. Once again, I both liked and disliked things about this film, my favourite thing about this review was the big bold name of the film. It has a red background behind it, which is much brighter than anything else on the page, attracting your eye right to it, this means the reader before they do anything else sees the name of the film, so therefore knows what they are reading about. In my film review I would hopefully recreate an effect similar to this one. Another thing I like about this review is the pictures, lots of pictures means readers have there own chance to judge what the film is about and whether they would want to watch it or not. Most of these pictures are action shots to making the film look exciting, like there's something happening all of the time, which after all is what viewers want when they are going to the cinema. The one thing I do dislike is the lack of writing, there isn't much of a review here, not even some sort of rating system meaning readers have to read the whole thing in order to find out whether the film is worth watching or not, if it were down to me I definitely would have added one.


Twilight

The third and final magazine I reviewed was based on the film Twilight, this is a film which I personally have never seen so reading this was very exciting for me, as I could see what its like for someone reading a review who has no idea what the film is about. As you can see from the picture the review is written on top of a picture from the film, this picture is of two people, a male and female looking deeply into each others eyes, for me this made me think that this would be a love film, about how these two characters relationship forms. As soon as you go to read the review you read 'A chick flick with serious bite', I like this a lot, it means the first sentence you read tells you about the film, and makes you want to read the rest to find out more about the film. Just like the Spider man 2 review there is a little verdict section at the bottom of the page, where the writer sums up the film and gives it a star rating, which I would love to have in my own review.


After looking at these three magazine film reviews I have seen many things which I want to add to my own review, such as pictures which explain the film themselves, a title which stands out and readers remember, a verdict section and much more. Along with things I decided I don't like and don't want in my review such as too little writing. From looking at this I will now attempt to create my own review.