Subsidiary Task - Magazine Review Page - Final

This is the final draft of my magazine review page. The only differences between this and my third draft is the font of 'Stick Up For Me' and the addition of page numbers. I feel that overall the piece works well as a review page and is cohesive following a clear house style.

Subsidiary Task - Poster - Final

This is the final draft of my poster. I have decided to move the name back to the bottom of the page as this is more conventional and I felt it distracted slightly from the main image. Overall, I feel this poster portrays the film well and looks professional because of the conventions I have followed.

Main Task - Short Film - Final

This is the final draft of my short film. All that is different between this and my previous draft is the additional title screens I have added at the start to make it look more authentic.

Subsidiary Task - Magazine Review Page - Draft 3

This is the third draft of my review page. All I have done to this version is play around with the positioning of the components. For example, the images are all less crooked and the web address box is more central.

Subsidiary Task - Magazine Review Page - Draft 2

This is the second draft of my review page. On my first draft I felt that there wasn't enough of the colour red. To solve this I have made the 'Our Verdict' box have the same format as the 'Reviews!' title making it more noticeable. I have also slightly altered the positioning of the text so that it is smaller, allowing room for the 'Our Verdict' box to be bigger. Looking at it now, I feel like the main image is too croocked and close to the top so I will go back and alter the positioning some more.

Subsidiary Task - Magazine Review Page - Draft 1

This is the first draft of my review page. I have chosen to use the bright house colours red, white and blue as I feel this makes my titles etc. stand out. I have also used one big main image and three smaller images that are all stills from the film. I have then added a boarder to them so that it looks as though they are printed photos lying on the page. I have used the same boarder on the 'Our Verdict' box to make it stand out so that if the reader only wants to read that section they know where it is immediately. I'm not sure about the blue background so am going to play around with colours and placement a little more.

Magazine Review Page Deconstruction

As I am unfamiliar with magazine review pages I am going to de-construct an existing example. 

This is the double page review section of the 'Flipside' magazine. It reviews several different films using the same format for each.

Title - who made it - release date
What's the story?
What's it like?
Any clever bits?
Flipside says

By doing this it keeps things uniform so if a reader only wants to read one section of the review they can find it more easily.

As with movie posters the magazine has a set of house colours, red, yellow, blue and white. All of these colours are bold and make the titles etc. more eye catching. To help this, the article has been written in one or two sans-serif fronts. This means it is again more uniform making it more easily understandable.

The language used in the writing is quite complex in some ways. The writer  use phrases like 'bum-numbingly exhaustive' to describe the films which highlights the almost sarcastic tone the reviews hold as well.

Since it features more than one review, there is a limit of one or two pictures per film. This enables them to fit more on the page with the two biggest picture accompanying the reviews for the films they have done previous features on in the magazine.

Finally, they add additional information in circular bubbles around the page which makes them stand out.

From this deconstruction I deduce that the conventions of magazine review pages are:

• Review more than one film and keep the structure uniform.
• Have a set of three or four house colours
• Use a sans-serif font because it is easier to read
• Use quite complex language in the article
• Limit the amount of pictures per film 
• Use coloured stickers to make additional information stand out. 

When completing my review page I will try to stick to these conventions as much as possible to make my piece authentic.