Potential Reviews For My Poster

I have been researching thriller posters and what I have found in some poster are reviews on the film so I have thought of some reviews which can be put on my poster.

• "A sizzling Thriller" 
• "Gripping" "Tense" "Superb"
• "Tense" "Urgency" "Anxiety"
• "Wallberger is incredible... The performance of the year"  
• "A rollercoaster ride of unrelenting action...Awesome!" 
• "Non-Stop thrills... Sizzling action from start to finish"
• "The thriller of the decade... Directed with class"
• " Compelling, intelligent and provocative"
• "Strap yourself in for the ride of your life"       

Potential Cover Lines For Magazine Front Cover

I have come up with a list of potential cover lines to use on the front cover on my magazine. They have to be appropriate for type of publication (mainstream). These are what I have come up with.

• Special previews 
• The Best 100 films of all time 
• Special prizes 
• What's next for the great Scorsese 
• Thriller films with Jake Wallberger 
• The worlds greatest film
• The worlds greatest films of all time 
• The top 10 thriller of the decade 
• 50 new movies to be watched 
• Paul Greengrass in Green Zone
• Sinatra - On the set of Scorsese's new biopic
• Mitch Kane stares in this year's hottest thriller
• Exclusive Interview: Robert Downey JR
• Hot Exclusives
• Our most action packed issue ever

Magazine Questionnaire

I have analysed the conventions of mainstream magazine front covers and the deign on my magazine front cover will be largely based on the convention I have found in my research particularly for mainstream magazine front covers and for the thriller genre however, I thought it might be useful to conduct some primary research and therefore I have created a questionnaire about magazine front covers. Hopefully the results I get will be useful when it comes to create my own poster.


1. What colours do you expect the font of the magazine title to be?

Red 
Black 
White 
Orange 
Blue 
Other 


2, What do you expect to find on a mainstream magazine front cover?

Image of star 
Cover lines 
Barcode 
Taglines 
Mast Head 
Date 
Price 
Issue number 
Banners 
Web address 
Slogans 


3. What content do you expect to find in a film magazine?

Features - discussions, pictures etc. 
Interviews
Reviews 
Previous 
Poster/Adverts 



4. In what way does the design of the magazine persuade you to buy the publication?

Big, Bold title of magazine (masthead) 
Big, often colourful banners 
Big, stars as the central image 
Eye Candy 
Exclusives referred to obviously on the front 
Good colour scheme 
Competitions 


5. In what was does the layout persuade you to buy the publication?

Clear structure 
Not cluttered 
Masthead the biggest text 
The taglines in line with each other 
No overlapping 

Magazine Name

After coming up with potential names for my magazine, I did a survey and asked 50 people their opinion on which name sounded best for a mainstream magazine, the pie chart above show the results, and shows that a large proportion of people like "Big Screen" was the best choice for a mainstream magazine name out of the other choices

Potential Magazine Names

Below is a list of potential magazine names for my own publication. By looking at existing film publications I able to grasp a better understanding of what kind of words were being used as names for the magazines.

• Extreme Film 
• Sphere
• Film Union  
• Big Screen 
• Epic 
• Amazing Film 
• Emperor 
• Film Journal 
• Film Diary 
• Film Gazette 

EXTREME FILM 

Extreme Film would be a suitable name as it creates the impressions it is for film lovers and the name suggest that they go further than other magazines. 

SPHERE 

Sphere is short for atmosphere which it is suitable name foe a magazine because it suggests that everyone should read the magazine.

FILM UNION 

Film Union is a suitable name for a film magazine because it suggests that the magazine is for film lovers.

BIG SCREEN 

Big Screen is the most suitable name for my film magazine because my film will be a big Hollywood blockbuster film and Big Screen suggests that that the top films with be shown in the magazine.

EPIC 

Epic suggests that the magazine will be a big Hollywood blockbuster magazines which of focus on elevated films.

AMAZING FILM

Amazing Film suggests whats in the name which again like Epic it focuses on Hollywood blockbuster films.

EMPEROR 

Emperor is a suitable name because it is similar to Empire but instead or being the empire you are being the leader and being the emperor.

FILM JOURNAL 

Film Journal suggests that the magazine will be serious because of the word journal and I don't think it would fit the criteria of my film.

FILM DIARY 

Film Dairy is completely opposite to Film Journal because as journal sounds serious diary sound less serious which would be more appropriate for my film, however it isn't right for my type of film.

FILM GAZETTE 

Film Gazette is similar to Film Journal in the serious side because Gazette is quite a sophisticated word and in draws older people rather than the younger generations.

Mainstream Magazine Analysis

After having been researching different magazines front covers I have decided that my film will be a Hollywood mainstream Picture, as a box office film, my magazine will have to reflect this. By looking at existing film publications, I hope to better understand what content is expected on these types of magazines, and what I have to include in my own magazine.

• Recognisable Actor - Christopher Nolan
• Barcode 
• Big, Bold Font 
• Bright Font 
• Reference to other content 
• Website 
• Price 
• Tagline - The Dark Knight Returns
• Cover line - Batman, Thor, Toy Story

• Recognisable Character - Iron Man
• Bright/Bold font 
• Barcode 
• Price 
• Edition 
• Pictures of other content - Avatar, Kick Ass
• Taglines - Oscars special The Lovely Bones The Clooney and more
• Banners
• Movie font 
• Reference to other content

• Recognisable character - X-Men
• Bright Font 
• Bold Font 
• Barcode 
• Price 
• Edition
• Reference to other content 
• Taglines - Wolverine has returned for...

• Recognisable characters 
• Bold/Bright Font
• Barcode
• Issue number 
• Price 
• Special Issue 
• Banners 
• Taglines - Transformers 3 strikes back!
• Reference to other content 
• Pictures of other content 

Rough Running order For My Teaser Trailer - Draft 1

1. Production company - Universal Studios 
2. Production company - Focus Features  
3. Production company - Working Title 
4. Establishing shot of the road from the bridge cars going past 
5. Establishing shot out side the college  
6. Medium shot of Alex teaching
7. Two shot of the kids at there desks - one hands the other one a note