PRE: Feature Magazine Initial Research

Empire is a Film magazine which is published by Bauer and is currently the biggest selling film magazine in Britain. Its not often that you see a film magazine in your local newsagents although there has to be somewhere for the latest films to be reviewed, previews and coverage of film news. There are features like "Top 10 ___" which encourages readers to give their opinion. The main attraction is known as the 'Masterpiece' which is a written article about a film selected by Empire. 

 

The Front page is more like a normal music magazine for instance, where you have the main attraction on the front cover which would be an actor/character from the film in order to highlight the quality of the film and to highlight what will be included within this edition. The image is normally one from a professional photo shoot.  

There is not one main focus for the genre which is written about within Empire from my opinion it has covered lots from 'The Shawshank Redemption' to 'Harry Potter' although i feel that there is a heavy influence of Action with a huge variety of action films being reviewed and taking the front cover. There is also a youtube channel which interviews actors and cast members about a film which they have been in, here i feel that the genres are much wider which means that there is a bigger target audience.

The Magazine have their own website and bring out a new edition monthly, which means that they get a huge amount of their profit from subscriptions although none of this information is given on the front page, there are also different editions of certain front covers which are similar to a collectors edition. They each have the same information inside and even written on the front of the magazine, they just have different covers featuring specific characters such as Harry Potter, having Ron Weasly and a Hermione cover for those who are willing to collect them all. Here its shown again with the Avengers which is this months edition:

Here is an interview with Eli Roth on Hostel: Part ||: 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0wfcyukDbQU  

  

When looking through a selection of TOTAL FILM magazine front covers and those also from EMPIRE, I came across a few editions of the same front cover. Initially i found this image which i thought was very simple and missed loads of the normal conventions for a magazine front cover, it was only then while i was continuing my search that i found the latter which is the edition in the form i would have expected to see it. They have used the same image, although it has made a huge difference with the differences in what is written surrounding the image