Comparing Teaser and Theatrical Trailers Introduction

For this task i will be looking at two different movies which both have a teaser and a theatrical. I will be looking at Iron Man 3 and Fast and Furious 7 which both have a teaser and a theatrical trailer. This task is done to help make me when i finally create my own teaser trailer

Iron Man 3:

Teaser Trailer:

Theatrical Trailer:

Fast and Furious 7

Teaser trailer

Theatrical Trailer

Filmmaker front Cover Analysis.

Filmmaker is a quarterly magazine cover issues relating to independent film. This magazine includes interviews, case studies financing, distribution information, technical and production updates and legal pointers. This magazine as I have already mentioned focuses on independent movies, we can see this through there is a famous dominant central figure that is widely known the movie that he will be acting in, in this case 'Danny Boyle's' is an independent movie. Furthermore the back round colour is muted suggesting that that this magazine doesn't cater for big Hollywood blockbusters but rather for independent films.

SFX Magazine Front Cover Analysis

SFX magazine is a Sci-Fi magazine, which focuses on science fiction movies and science fiction television program. The mastheads font blocky and weirdly shaped, representing sci fi genre this magazine focuses on. Furthermore the dominant figure is of a superhero (which is seen as sci fi to most people) which continues to show us that this magazine focuses on mainly the sci fi genre. Moreover with the mention of 'Star Wars' in a big silver looking banner across the base of the magazine portrays that this magazine focuses on sci fi movies/series.  

American Cinematographer Front Cover Analysis

American Cinematographer is a magazine that focuses on the specialist job of lighting a film. The magazine contains articles on Hollywood films but also independent, British and world cinema. The magazine is also very niche. The American Cinematographer masthead is of artistically lower case writing with a font that isn't blocky this represents the cinematographers that are artistic and don't have a public face.  furthermore the cover lines are not of blockbuster movies but of cinematographers this adds to my previous assumption hat this magazine focuses on lighting and cinematographers. Moreover with a dominant actor as a central figure it represents that it doesn't only focus on Cinematographers, but on dominant movies as well. The back round is muted representing that the focus of this magazine is not on stars of the film but rather the people that give the film its look.

Sight and Sound Front Cover Analysis

Sight and Sound is a British film magazine Published by the British Film Institute.  This magazine focuses mainly on independent movies rather then big blockbusters. This can be seen through many features on the front cover, for example the dominant central figure. This is of a director which not many people will especially know. Unlike Empire who also have a dominant central figure of usually a famous actor. Furthermore the font is simple and artistic, this represents the independent movies which Sight and Sound represents. Moreover the White Ribbon interview is an interview of a independent movie, this continues to suggest that this magazine focuses on independent movies rather then big hollywood blockbusters. additionally the colour scheme is quite muted with the fonts in just plain black and white which suggest that the magazine covers discusses less glossy movies.      

Empire Magazine Front Cover Analysis

This is a front cover of Empire Magazine. Empire magazine is published monthly by Bauer media Group. The Masthead of Empire magazine is in block letters in a big font and the color is red. This portray's the big Hollywood blockbuster movies that this magazine writes about. Furthermore the dominant figure is this magazine front cover is also famous, this may represent the big blockbusters movies this magazine features. In addition the cover lines all contain high budget blockbusters like  
'Wolverine,' 'Star Trek,' 'Green Zone,' 'The WolfMan,' 'Quantum of Solace' and 'Watchmen.'

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Different Film Publication Front Cover Analysis Introduction

Now that I've looked at all different film publications and conventions of magazine front covers, I am going to now look at five different front covers of different types of publications and analyse them in terms of layout, style and content

Magazine Front Cover Conventions

This is a list of all the possible front covers that could be found on magazine front covers - I found many of these when analysing magazine front covers and will use this in the future front cover I'm creating.

MASTHEAD

DOMINANT FIGURE

COVER LINES

MAIN COVER LINE

BARCODE / PRICE / ISSUE DATE

ISSUE NUMBER

WEBSITE

BANNER

SLOGAN

Magazine Front Cover Conclusion

The benefits from this task was that i found out that all conventions in magazine front covers are the same regardless of the type of audience it caters for.  However, the content on the cover changes with the audience it's representing. Now that I have a greater understanding of the content used, I would also have to think about the font and colour as they reflect the magazine and what types of films feature on them.

      

Magazine Front Cover Analysis 2

The second magazine I analysed is from 'Sight & Sound'

Magazine Front Cover Analysis 1

The first magazine analysed is from the 'Empire Magazine'

Magazine Cover Analysis Introduction

Now that I have looked at convention for Movie Posters I will be doing the same for magazine front covers. I am going to be looking a two different magazine front covers which covers different audiences to see if they share the same conventions and their terms of layout regardless of their target audiences.