Analysing a Film Magazine Article

When analysing film magazines I need to look at not just the layout but also the content. This first magazine I will be looking at the layout and then chose another to study the content to help me create a professional and interesting looking film magazine double spread article. 

Firstly, when studying the layout of images on this page, they vary in size. My eyes are immediately drawn to the top image because it holds the most colour but is also the largest and so when creating my own magazine article I need to think about how the size of my images will effect my audience. I need my audience to be able to flick through a film magazine and stop at this page and be drawn to the images and layout before they even read a title or paragraph. I also need to think about with photos will best represent my short film and which could possibly let the audience know of the genre before they read the synopsis of the film. Some good images I could use would be one of the laser gun to show action, one of the Shadow Selves to show danger, and possibly some of me drawing as they are the main parts to my short film.

The second this I notice when looking at this article is the amount of white space. I want to have a house style to my magazine and I feel this film magazine doesn't have an obvious house style. There is a lack of colour which I also don't like about this article.Although the lack of colour on the pages means that our eyes are drawn more so to the images, I find this article dull to look at and so therefore would not catch my attention when looking through a magazine. When styling my magazine I could possibly create a border of colour or something just to give it a little edge over this article. The white space in between the columns of writing is even and consistent through out the article, I need to take this into account when creating my own magazine article.