Different Styles of Magazine

Magazines come in all sorts of styles and formats and their contents change in formality because of it. For example, magazines such as Heat and OK are ver informal in particular when reviewing films. However magazines such as BFI Sight & Sound that are aimed at the film industry provide much more detailed reviews for movies.

These sorts of magazines can also be found all over the interenet, whether they are printed or not there are copius amounts of website aimed purely at reviewing films. Examples of these sites are Total Film and Rotten Tomatoes. The reviews for the films that they provide a decent overview of the film and what audience members and critics alike thought of it. Everyone's opinion is shown on the review, whereas reviews in magazines such as OK are much less formal, using phrases and words like "Hurrah!". This is probably due to the fact that OK does not specialise in film reviews like Rotten Tomatoes, it is more of a celebrity gossip magazine.

The BFI Sight & Sound magazine is very different to OK magazine. For starters, the reviews are about 5 times as long as those from OK magazine. The magazine says it reviews all films released each month, including those with a narrow art-house release, as opposed to the more mainstream focus of magazines like OK. Sight & Sound also features a full credit list of cast and crew for each film reviewed.