There are quite a number of british film magazines and we have chosen to look at probably the three most famous ones; Empire, Little White Lies and Total Film.
Empire
Empire is a British film magazine published monthly by Bauer Consumer Media, it's first issue was published in July 1989 and it reviews both mainstream and art films but predominantly the former. Empire's magazine covers are very straightforward as they just use one photo from a film, that they are talking about in the issue, for the background of the magazine. As well as the main film that they are focusing on, the cover also displays photos from other films and text with different headlines. As our film isn't particularly mainstream, we feel that this magazine wouldn't be the best option for our film as they mainly target at big budget blockbusters.
Total Film
Total film is a UK-based film magazine published 13 times a year (every four weeks) by Future publishing. The magazine was launched in 1997 and offers cinema, DVD and Blu-ray news, reviews and features. Total Film is available both in print and interactive iPad editions. Like Empire, Total Film focus on big blockbusters such as Inception and The Amazing Spider-Man. We don't feel as if our film would be suitable for Total Films magazine as it wouldn't attract the correct audience for both the magazine and our film.
Little White Lies
Little White Lies is a bi-monthly, British independent movie magazine that features writing, illustration and photography related to cinema. For their covers, LWL mostly chose films that have/will win awards and merits not just because they are the most popular at the time.
While Empire and Total film are very similar in terms of layout and style, Little White Lies has a completely different and more stylistic and simplistic effect. This is why we feel that LWL will be the most suitable for our film.
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