Film Magazine Idea

When it came to creating the film magazine, we wanted it to look as professional as we could make it look. From researching existing film magazines which promoted horror, we decided that in order for it to look professional, we had to choose one of two options; make a film magazine which is solely dedicated to the horror genre, or create a film magazine about film in general, with the main sell-line promoting our horror film/the front cover dedicated to our horror film. We started thinking about what kind of magazine to make, but were unable to make a decision collectively. 

Because of this, we started researching existing media texts, and found that when it came to film magazines that were dedicated to horror, such as Fangoria, there wasn’t any available in print, and there were very few in general. We then researched more into general film magazines, such as Total Film and Empire, and found that none of these had ever had a horror film being promoted on the front cover. This made the decision really difficult as we worried that the film poster wouldn’t look professional at all. However, we felt that Empire and Total Film looked extremely professional, and since there was many examples available in print, it would be better for our group to take inspiration from these magazines, by creating a general film magazine, but break conventions by promoting our horror on the front cover of a general film magazine. Even though this went against what our focus group preferred, we felt that choosing to do this meant that our film magazine would look as professional as it could, which would fulfill the aim that we had when we started the project. 

We decided to aim it at a similar target audience to Empire, as this magazine was a big influence for ours, because of it's reputation when it came to film magazines. This meant creating our film magazine for a male audience, who are ABC1 and mostly aged between 15 to 24, who are extremely interested in the world of cinema.