Review-
Synergy- promoting your film.
Cannot be online.
Empire- More mainstream films, attracting mainstream audiences. More adverts. Younger audiences- for the average movie fan. Contains film that would appeal to a teenage audience. (14-25). Franchise, action based films - teenage. review- large images, mediocre amount of text, no synopses, gives verdict and basic plot.
Sight and sound- More artistic films included, attracting specialized audiences.
Older audiences, maybe more intellectual. For the avid movie fan. Academics, educated film lovers.
Art house- specialised films. Do contain small reviews of blockbusters. A lot of classic, archive films.
Contains technical credits, actors etc, in review. Synopses, columned, text heavy.
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Vocabulary- Tone, Register-
SS- Uses advanced vocabulary, the entire review is the point, it builds it up with no conclusion. More formal. They talk about the social context, meaning and political angle. They talk about the cinematic style. Also talk about the directors style and technique, production of the film. Long, constructed sentences with diverse vocabulary. VOCABULARY.
Empire- They talk a lot about the actors and their previous roles, nothing about production
Consider audiences- linked to your type of film - Is it specialized? - What type of publication might it reviewed in. basic sentence structure and vocabulary. Coffee table magazine. IMAGE.
If my film were to appear in either magazine it would definitely appear in the Sight and Sound magazine. This is because it is a specialised film and would not appeal to a main stream audience, like that of the Empire audience. It would also need extensive and detailed reviews of the actual film rather than actors, as it features no actors. It is also appropriate for Sight and Sound as it features a prominent political view, something that Sight and Sound like to refer to in their reviews.