research and Planning: Film Magazine Analysis 1

Genre: The genre for this magazine cover is the shining, and as everyone knows this is a horror film. you can see this clearly through the main image, were the main character looks crazy or angry with makes the viewer feel over powered. It helps that this is the iconic scene in the film that everyone knows.

Representation: The genre is reflected through the representation, for example the images represents how the character has gone mad and whats to do something sinister to a poor unsuspecting victim.


Media language:

• The masthead is in its conventional place at the top of the magazine cover
• The main image is in the center of the magazine cover
• The the red colour on the font and on the square next to The Shining could mean that the film on the cover is a horror film.
• The tagline for this film is a quote from the film that is linked to the main image.

Target audience:

• The target audience for this magazine are people who are interested in fims
• This targets also people who may just like the shining and some of the other film featured in this magazine
• It may also target the younger generation who haven't seen some of these films to watch them after reading about them
• The target age group for this magazine would be people aged between 18-23 this is because this is the age group that have seen this film and would like the article about this film

Narrative:

• The narrative is the same as the representation and the genre paragraph