First off I haven't blogged in ages coz I've had tonnes of other things going on, and the group's main focus has been finishing our filming.
I've almost completed my magazine front cover, and thought a brief insight into Sight & Sound magazine might help me to express why I chose to use this magazine and whether or not my front cover follows or goes against the conventions of Sight & Sound.
* Published by the BFI, Sight & Sound magazine was first published in 1932. It didn't start getting published monthly until 1991 when it started to feature the 'Mothly Film Bulletin'.
* Sight & Sound has a more 'highbrow' reputation than other film magazines. It says it reviews all film releases each month, including those with a narrow art house release, as opposed to the more mainstream focus of its competitors.
* Sight & Sound also currently features a full cast and crew credit list for each reviewed film.
* Sight & Sound has in the past been the subject of criticism, and accused of "elitism, puritanism and upper-middle-class snobbery" by some.
* Every decade, Sight & Sound asks an international group of film professionals to vote for their greatest film of all time. Critics are asked to provide a top ten list; in 1992, directors were invited to participate in a separate poll. The individual results are eclectic; in the most recent poll, 885 different films received at least one mention from one voter.
* The Sight & Sound accolade has come to be regarded as one of the most important of the "greatest ever film" lists. Roger Ebert (American film critic and screen writer) described it as "by far the most respected of the countless polls of great movies--the only one most serious movie people take seriously."
* The first poll, in 1952, was topped by Bicycle Thieves (1948 Italian neorealist film directed by Vittorio De Sica).
I've almost completed my magazine front cover, and thought a brief insight into Sight & Sound magazine might help me to express why I chose to use this magazine and whether or not my front cover follows or goes against the conventions of Sight & Sound.
* Published by the BFI, Sight & Sound magazine was first published in 1932. It didn't start getting published monthly until 1991 when it started to feature the 'Mothly Film Bulletin'.
* Sight & Sound has a more 'highbrow' reputation than other film magazines. It says it reviews all film releases each month, including those with a narrow art house release, as opposed to the more mainstream focus of its competitors.
* Sight & Sound also currently features a full cast and crew credit list for each reviewed film.
* Sight & Sound has in the past been the subject of criticism, and accused of "elitism, puritanism and upper-middle-class snobbery" by some.
* Every decade, Sight & Sound asks an international group of film professionals to vote for their greatest film of all time. Critics are asked to provide a top ten list; in 1992, directors were invited to participate in a separate poll. The individual results are eclectic; in the most recent poll, 885 different films received at least one mention from one voter.
* The Sight & Sound accolade has come to be regarded as one of the most important of the "greatest ever film" lists. Roger Ebert (American film critic and screen writer) described it as "by far the most respected of the countless polls of great movies--the only one most serious movie people take seriously."
* The first poll, in 1952, was topped by Bicycle Thieves (1948 Italian neorealist film directed by Vittorio De Sica).
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