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1. I looked through some copies of the filmmagazine ‘Empire’ the images above are the issues
I looked through.
I did this to look at filmreviews of the same genre as my
project to find out what I should avoid and what I should try
to include in my project. In the first magazine on the left I
looked at a review of the film; Sherlock Holmes: A game of
Shadows. This filmis a crime genre film which is the same
genre that I want to achieve. The date this issue came out
was October 2011. The article is mainly about how the filmis
going to live up to the TV show ‘Sherlock’. A lot of the article
is opinion of the author and the main point they are trying to
get across is that this film has to have its own style and its
own style rather than copying the
very popular TV show.
The magazine on the right I looked at a film review of; The Dark
Knight Rises. This is a /Action/thriller/crime film. A similarity
between these two articles is they are both on films that are a
direct sequel to their predecessor. They both had the challenge of
coming after an already well received film. So the majority of the
article talks about how they will live up to the original. So it gives

2. quite a few ways on how to make it bigger and better and I could take some of this advice
on board when it comes to my project. This issue was released May 2012. The author of this
article is quite similarly to the Sherlock Holmes article talking about how the villain ‘Bane’ by
Tom Hardy is going to live up to Heath Ledger’s ‘Joker’ performance which won him an
Oscar. They talk about how in this film they can’t go for the same formula because how
much the fans liked it they will spot it straight away so this filmhas to be completely new.
The main points I took from these magazines were about originality and how having bold
and new ideas is important rather than going for conventions all the time and sticking to the
formula pre-set by classic films.