My Magazine Review

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I created my magazine review as if it were going to be in the magazine 'Abandon' that I created for AS. The reason for this was firstly because I thought keeping that running theme would be fun and interesting; secondly, I still read the same magazines I did back then so the influences were going to be very similar. My two main influences on this review came from the magazines 'Loaded' and 'FRONT'.

This review is from the magazine 'Loaded' and is for the animated feature length film 'Tintin'. I really like the grammar and lexis that the writers use to review the film. It is quite informal and uses a lot of common word choices instead of Jargon that you might find in magazines like 'Empire' or 'FX'. The layout and length of the review is also like how I aimed to produce. I didn't want to waffle on for pages about the cinematic breakdown of my entire 12 minute production. Instead I wanted to be concise and keep whoever the reader may be interested whilst still putting across all the desired information.

This second scanned image show a film review from the magazine 'FRONT'. As can be seen when comparing these two published magazines, their layouts are very similar; the biggest difference being that 'FRONT' includes more than a single picture and uses the entire page to review the film. It also includes an additional little feature tied in with the film. I've focused more on making my piece like this one however using more of the language from the first extract as I feel the language used in the 'FRONT' review can sometimes be a little to extreme and obscene.