Industrial Research: Initial research into NEA

 

Bauer Media Group

Bauer media group only has one film magazine signed to it which is called ‘Empire’. It has other magazines signed that have some relevance such as ‘tv choice’ which includes content around movies and TV shows such as celebrity gossip and ‘must watch’ films. The front covers of this brand are ‘tabloidesque’ and this style of front cover wont work well for my ideas. Other brands that linked a little with the brief of film magazine were celebrity gossip magazines such as heat and closer. These could work as I could make a magazine about celebrity gossip surrounding a new film (such as a spoiler released in an interview). However the front covers of both these magazines are also quite ‘tabloidesque’ so these wouldn’t work well with my ideas either. Therefore my NEA will be inspired by the brand ‘Empire’.

These covers from ‘closer’ and ‘heat’ are very celebrity gossip based. As my brief states that I need to do a film magazine, this style of front cover wont work very well. This is mainly because the cover features many different celebrity gossip stories and if they were all gossip stories about film, it wouldn’t fit the conventions of that type of magazine (a celebrity gossip magazine).

These covers from ‘tv choice’ fit the brief more than ‘heat’ and ‘choice’ but still wouldn’t entirely work with the brief. This is because it doesn't just cover film topics, but TV dramas and TV shows. The ‘tabloidesque’ layout of the front cover means that there are many celebrity gossip stories on the one front cover and if i made them all film stories it wouldn’t fit the conventions of a celebrity gossip magazine.

 These covers from ‘Empire’ fit the brief of ‘film magazine’ as well as some of the ideas I have already come up with. It is less focussed on celebrity gossip surrounding media forms and more focussed on movies and reviewing the movies themselves. As well as this, it doesn't have the same ‘tabloidesque’ conventions on the front cover as the other magazines. For these reasons I will be taking inspiration from ‘Empire’ when planning, designing and making my NEA.