Tuesday 20 March 2012

What makes a good magazine?

What makes a good magazine?
1. use appealing people on the front cover because this will make people either want to be like the person on the front or they will want to look at them.
2. use competitions to draw peoples eyes in. this will make people want to read and find further information on how they can win the competition.


3. Use interesting or weird story lines on the front cover for example "my rapist added me on facebook" these will make people want to know about who it's about and want to know about all of the details on the interesting story.

4. Use a catchy name that will stay in their head, this will make sure that people remember what magazine it is and make them want to buy it again.

5. Have a low price so people will buy it more than the other more expensive competition, this will help to get your product sold a lot more than the other products 

6. use free gifts this will make sure that people will think that if they spend the money to buy the magazine then they will want to buy the magazine again so that they will get free gifts from the magazine

7. Use eye catching bold font, this will draw the reader in if the title and background stands out and it will stay in their heads and they'll want to buy it again.

8. use brand new information, this will make people want to read it because they will see that they have new information that they wont find anywhere else  

The magazine unit

  • We can work in pairs
  • we can use apropriate themes shuch as: sport, gossip, fitness
  • Do not use inapropriate themes such as: pornography etc..
  • In a pair you have to do 8 pages, on your own it's 4 pages
  • we can't do music magazines
  • we need to take mostly our own picture

Tuesday 21 February 2012

Movie research

Fast and Furious Fire:
1.Universal production is the production company for the film.
2.Justin Lin directed the movie.
3.$125,000,000 was the estimated budget of the film.
4.$626,137,675 was the worldwide gross profit.
5.They won the BMI Film Music Award and the teen choice award for action.
6.The features in the website that shows that it is a high budget film are the navigation page        with all the animations on it, and that when you change the page on the website it shows lots of characters and animations of the film
7.the features that show its a action film is the pictures of explosions, guns and cars which are all usually featured in action film.
8.I can tell that the target audience is a male from teenagers to adults you can  tell it is them because there are dark colours 

Bridesmaids:
1. the production company that made it was universal.
2.Paul Feig directed the movie.
3.$32,500,000 was the estimated budget for the film
4.$287,797,912 was the gross profit.
5.They won the AFI Film Award, BSFC Award, Critics Choice Award, IFTA Award, Sierra Award, People's Choice Award.
6.the features in the website that shows it's a medium budget film are that the images move but it's a plain back ground.
7. The features that shows that its a female comedy because of the colours used such as pink and that it's got women in wedding dresses.
8.I can tell the target audience is females from 15 to 30 because of the colours used and that and that it says the makers from films that are based at teenagers.


This is England:
1. The production company that made it was Big Arty productions?
2.Shane Meadows directed the film.
3.£1,500,000 was the estimated budget
4.£327,919 was the gross profit
5.They won the BAFTA film award, British independent film award, Young audience award, UK film talent award, British European film award, Young European jury award, Best Director Award, Special jury award, Writers guild of Britain award.
6.The website shows that it is a low budget film because it's only half of the page and the main feature of the page is the trailer.
7.The features that show it's a drama is that there is a background of a rough area and there is the trailer showing what happens.
8.I can tell that the target audience is a range from 18 up to 40 from male to female because it's dramatic and it depends whether they like dramatic films or not

Tuesday 7 February 2012

Ideas for my film website

I will signify the genre by:

  • have explosions pictures
  • have dark colours
  • show weapons
  • i'll have the main characters which will show that it is an action film
Ben Walters Website Analysis