Film Magazine analysis

By looking at the two different types of music magazine, one more mainstream and the other more specialised I was able to see the codes and conventions of a film magazine, therefore enabling me to decide if I am going to stick to the codes and conventions of a magazine or subvert the conventions and choose to structure the cover in my own way.  Due to the fact I am making a specialised magazine I am likely to adhere to the second magazine more .From my template it is clear that I am going to make my magazine cover quite conventional. I have chosen to structure it similarly to the first magazine ( Total Film ) as there are certain aspects of the mainstream magazine I find appealing , such as the layout as I believe the second magazine looks somewhat more clustered than the first as on the front cover of the first magazine there is more space around the main image and the cover lines are smaller thus making the main cover line more important.