Thursday, 23 January 2014

Comparing Magazine Reviews - Empire & Total Film

From the December 2013 issues of Empire and Total Film, I compared reviews within the magazines and cross-referenced matching reviews. I found that both reviewed the film 'Don Jon' starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Scarlett Johansson.  



The review for Don Jon was formal, however compared to Empire's review it quite imformal. It includes more graphics, for example a Predicted Interest Curve and a Talking Point. It also offers films similar to it. The article itself is more focused on strength and rise of Joseph Gordon-Levitt rather than the film.
They rated the film 4*'s.







This article is a very formal review. It includes a mini plot and the review itself focuses heavily on the darkness of the script and that there is a hidden meaning behind JGL's character's activities. They use a different picture to Total film,
but both depict the dirtiness of the film.







Within the magazines, there is also a different main review. Empire chose to do a 3 page spread on Thor: The Dark World. Total Film chose to do 'Gravity' as their main review, but only did a 2 page spread. They choose to do different reviews due to publicity and the amount of pictures released by the directing company.

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