Friday 23 March 2012


  1. The images that are usually on the front cover of film magazines are characters of recent films.
  2. The average price is around £3.99.
  3. In film magazines you will sometimes find articles giving you the opportunity to win free cinema tickets, tv's and stereos .
  4. The articles you would find in a film magazine are mostly about film reviews telling you how good the films is and that you should watch it.
  5. They normally use dark colors 
  6. The magazines has 170 pages in total.
  7. Other than the main image in the film magazine, there is several other smaller images of film characters.
  8.   

Tuesday 20 March 2012

What Makes A Great Magazine


  • Certain  magazines will have a celebrity or a model on the front cover to get the attention of viewers.
  • A bright bold title that stands out from the rest of the magazine can make a good magazine.
  • A teaser headline that gives you a little taste of what will be in the magazine.
  • Some magazines have pages were you can enter competitions and win prizes.

The Magazine Unit

For this unit we are allowed to use photos from the internet or take our own photos. We are allowed to work in pairs. If we work in pairs we would have to do 8 pages. If we worked on our own we would have to do 4 pages.

Saturday 10 March 2012

This Is England


  1. The production company of the film was Big Arty Productions, EM Media and Film 4.
  2. The film This Is England was directed by Shane Meadows.
  3. The budget of the film was £1,500,000 (estimated).
  4. The gross profit was $327,919 (USA)
  5. The film won a BAFTA film award,British  Independent film award, Young Audience award, UK Film Talent award, Best European award, Young European Jury award, Best Director award, Special Jury award, and a Writers Guild Of Great Britain award.
  6. The fact that the film website was plain made it obvious that they had a low budget.
  7. In the background of the film website of This Is England they have used an estate. They used an estate for the background because it can sometimes connote a "gang" environment. 
  8. The target audience for the film is probably for male young adults.

Tuesday 21 February 2012

Bridesmaids

  1. The production company of bridesmaid was Universal.
  2. The film was directed by  Paul Feig. 
  3. The budget of the film was  $32,500,000.
  4. The film bridesmaid made  $287,797,912 (gross profit) at the box office.
  5. The film recieved an AFI Film Award, BSFC Award, Critics Choice Award, IFTA Award, Sierra Award, and a  People's Choice Award.
  6. The film website for bridesmaid had a plain background but had

Fast & Furious 5

1. The production company on fast & furious 5 was Universal.
2. Justin Lin directed the film.
3. The film budget was $125,000,000.
4. $626,137,675 was how much the film made (gross profit).
5. The film won the BMI Film Music Award and the teen choice award for action.
6. The features in the fast and furious 5 website shows that it is a high film budget.
7.The features in the film website that will help show it is an action genre is the pictures and clips of the actors driving fast with their guns and explosions.
8. I can tell the target audience of the film is for male teenagers or young adults because there is actors who normally are in action films and there are pictures of the actors holding guns and fighting.