1. A2 Media Studies
Ancillary Tasks
1: Film Poster
2a: Film magazine front
cover featuring the film
2b: Film magazine review
page featuring the film

2. A2 Media Studies
Ancillary Tasks
1: Film Poster
2a: Film magazine front
cover featuring the film
2b: Film magazine review
page featuring the film

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(behind the
Top Third scenes)
Masthead
Website
Puff (logo) Puffs
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Dateline &
Cover
Coverlines Price
Bar code
Left Third

11. A2 Media Studies
Ancillary Tasks
2a: Film magazine front
cover featuring the film
2b: Film magazine
review page featuring
the film

12. How to research a new
magazine?
First, find a publisher…

13. Empire Magazine is owned by
The Bauer Publishing Group.
Bauer is the largest privately owned publisher in Europe, publishing in Germany,
France, Spain, Portugal and the United Kingdom. Additionally, Bauer publishes in
the United States and Mexico. The Bauer Publishing Group was founded in
Hamburg in 1875 by Johann Bauer. Under the management of four generations
of the Bauer family. The Bauer Publishing Group has grown from its humble
beginnings as a printing house into a worldwide publishing empire comprising 282
magazines in 15 countries with 6,600 employees worldwide and annual turnover
of 1.79 billion Euro.

14. Genre?

15. http://www.bauermedia.co.uk/brands#2

16. Audience?

17. http://www.bauermedia.co.uk/Brands/Empire/

18. A – Upper middle class – senior professional
B – Middle class – professionals
C1 – Lower middle class – white collar administrative workers
C2 – Lower middle class – blue collar skilled workers
D – Unskilled or semi-skilled workers
E – Unemployed, students

19. Purpose?

21. Stylistic conventions
for the review page.

22. How to write a magazine film
review page?
First, look at examples
from the real world…

23. Image
Text or Copy

24. Text or Copy

25. Film Title
Subheading

26. Film Details
Plot summary
(with actors introduced in
parentheses)

27. Insert

28. Summary
5 star grading
system

29. Background
details

30. Affluent male movie fans?

31. Rewrite the
opening
paragraph as
a glowing
comparison
between this
film and The
Lord of the
Rings