REVIEW PAGE - Existing products

Ultimately, our film will be screened at our school. So the film review page would best be suited to the sixth form school magazine 'Sixth Sense'. However I think it would be good to look at other existing magazines, if briefly, to get a better sense of layout and production values.

EMPIRE
Price: £3.99
Release: Monthly
Industry Info: Very commercial, a big business magazine, a very mainstream publication.
Audience: People interested in popular, mainstream films shown in cinemas such as Odeon, Vue. Film enthusiasts, people with a general film interest.
Range of Film Coverage: All countries, new films and occasionally old films, but mostly feature length mainstream films, often Hollywood films.
Film Review Page Production Values/Content: Link to webpage, often just 1 picture. Gives all industry information, and information about similar films. Font reflects the mainstream - block and bland, so can cover all genres. Font reflects the name, official and standing out. Pictures mostly stills from films. Always give a rating in stars out of 5, verdict and a release date. Sometimes trivial facts.

SIGHT AND SOUND
Price: £3.95
Release: Monthly
Industry Info: Funded by the British Film Institute.
Audience: All British who enjoy less mainstream films.
Range of Film Coverage: Mainly independent and art films, foreign films, old films. 
Film Review Page Production Values/Content: Quite a linear, simplistic design. Value stills from films and pictures that look interesting, artful and stylistic, as opposed to representing a film with a generic still. Plain, similar font to Empire. Very functional, serious, about the content, which is quite sophisticated.

Sixth Sense
Price: Free
Release: Annual, in the spring/summer.
Industry Info: Student magazine, for Camden School for Girls.
Audience: Students and possible families.
Range of Film Coverage: Films that the writers personally recommend, not very objective.
Film Review Page Production Values/Content: Georgia font - bland, official and functional. Film poster and 2 stills on the review page.