(From left to right - Empire, FHM, Sight & Sound) In order to write our film review, it was important to determine which magazine we would use as inspiration based on their target audience.
We know our film is classified as a drama as apposed to a horror or an action and the more manly magazines like FHM and Empire, are more likely to review films that are action for example.
The readers of FHM aren't necessarily interested in lenghty texts that are in-depth, they prefer straightforward, summarising reviews ("who? what's it about?" headings) with a sense of humour.
The readers of Empire are interested more the review itself. It is mainly the writing that dominates the page. But despite the readers having a slight difference of interesents it's reviews are mostly about male orientated genres
Sight & Sound offers completely different language conventions. The language in the Sight & Sound reviews takes on a more sophisticated approach in it's laguage and design. The pictures are placed at the top then later, mid review. They're the same size and are both stills of the review.
When regarding the magazines themselves, FHM is not a film magazine so it's to be expected that the review would be brief, whereas in Sight & Sound, an established film magazine, there is much more text.
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