Research into Film magazines

Firstly, film magazines obviously revolve around the topic of films, which can reach many different audiences where ever the magazine is distributed. The reason for this is there are a wide range of genres that films can fit into, and film magazines have to make sure that they are a broad film magazine, so that they can attract readers from many interest, rather than just one.

Although this is true, there are some magazines that do just circulate around the one genre of film, making it specialised in this one area, although they will not achieve as many readers as a broader film magazine, the readers that are interested in this one genre will make sure they buy this as they then don't have to go through the magazine having to find the one section they are interested in. An example of this type of magazine is 'Shivers' which is produced by Visual Imagination and the main focus of this magazine is horror. This magazine is now out of circulation, as it's last issue was on the 14th May 2008.

Film magazines generally are interested in the newer releases out at the cinemas, or films that are going to be in the cinemas in the near future. As this is true, the readers of the magazine, I believe, will be between the ages of early teens to late 30's. The reason for this is, as people get older, I feel they don't have as much interest in the more contemporary things going on in the world as younger people do. Although this is true, people that are older than this age range that are interested in new films and new ideas being brought into the film world are also going to be part of the target audience for the magazines.

Although most issues of films revolve around modern or new releases, it is also possible for them to go back in time and talk about older popular films. Many magazine's wouldn't do this without a reason, and one main reason for them doing this may be that it is the film's anniversary of some kind, or it's the anniversary of the producer/main actor. An example of this would be the latest edition of the Empire magazine, which has Back to the Future as the main feature of the magazine. This film was released in 1985, which makes it a non-contemporary film. The reason the magazine did this was because it has being 25 years since it was made.