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Ancillary product - magazine covers

For my film magazine there are 3 main British magazine companies to consider; Total film, Empire and Little White Lies.

Total film (TF) is a magazine published monthly by  Future publishing and originated in 1997.

Empire (E)  is a magazine published monthly by Bauer media group and originated in 1989

Little white Lies (LWL) is a bi-monthly magazine internationally published by TCOLondon

Whereas TF and E magazines take a typically crowded out magazine style with effective use of space and proportions through cover lines, secondary images and pugs, LWL takes a much more minimalism approach with a textured and artistic close up of the cover star.

Whilst this simplicity is a unique selling point and aesthetically appealing to audiences it would be very difficult to replicate its artistic style.

Meanwhile TF and E follow the normal conventions of a magazine which would help target a more general audience who are interested in film. nonetheless it would still be challenging to replicate all of the conventions which would require more planning and more consideration into the finer details like house colours which string all of the other conventions together coherently to make a coherent and complex magazine cover.