Magazine research - Laura

A common convetion to include in film posters are reviews. These will always be good reviews so it promotes the film, as well as perhaps hinting at the plot or genre. For example one of the film posters I looked at was 'Sleeping with the enemy', and a review for this was 'A classic thriller', therefore it clearly protrayed its genre. Yet, the companies that write these reviews are also indicative of the audience the film is targeting. For example, if it is a review for 'Empire' magazine, it will be for an audience who are very interested in films as all of the content is film-based, similarly to 'Little White Lies' which is a magazine we looked at for a case study.
In our film we are representing the social group of teenagers, so we decided that we needed to use a magazine which had the same audience of teenagers. Looking up magazines that have specific film content, I found one called 'Tribute', which was interesting as it has three different magazines for three different audiences: children, teens and adults. Looking through the archive, the teen magazines featured films such as: The Hunger Games, Harry Potter and Twilight. Though our film is based upon more serious issues, we can still use this magazine for a review as these films have similar audiences.
Another magazine we can use for our review is 'Empire'. Below is a profile of the magazines readership.