As a group we have been working on the layout and design of our magazine review recently, taking inspiration from the magazine Empire. Here are some ideas we came up with...
This A3 sheet shows the first double page spread, with the right side being taken up completely by a picture - this is either going to be of a business man walking past the graffiti wall or a bench with the vagrant and the business man sitting on at opposite ends. We have not yet decided this and are going to see which looks better when we have the shots. The left hand side shows a piece of ripped cardboard, showing the title of the film in a large font and a small subtitle to hint the genre of the film. There will be a small amount of text at the bottom of this page, in 3 equal comments. When looking through empire we noticed that it was common for the reviews to have little writing on the first pages, and for the focus to mainly be on the pictures and title.
This is the second page of our review, there are going to be lots of images showing different stills of the film, which is something we noticed a lot when looking through Empire. There is the ripped cardboard in the middle again which will link the two pages together, and make it clear to the reader that this page is following on from the last - this circle will contain key facts about the film, which is something that Empire includes in all of its reviews. The quotation marks show where we will include a key point that the film critic makes, a possitive thing that will entice the reader to read all of the review. The 6 collums will include text.-x-
Here is another idea for our review, this is the first A3 sheet, there is a large picture at the top which takes up a lot of the space, we feel that pictures are just as important as text in our review; as we want it to interest the reader, and not include too much text, as this could be quite boring. The picture is of the benches setting with the business man in the corner slightly, this will allow the reader to see the actor we have chosen, as this is a short film without famous actors it is unlikely that this would entice them to see the film, in the way that a well known name would do. This layout includes 5 collums of writing, and down the far right side there is a piece about the charity that our short film supports - the salvation army, with information on how to donate, we believe this could really increase our audience!
This is the second page of our second layout idea, again we have chosen to include several pictures, which will break up the text and make the layout more interesting and colourful. We have also included the circle of 'info' which will include the same key facts found on every review in Empire - as a group we prefer the idea of this being made out of cardboard, like the first idea. Again there is going to be a quotation from the reviewer at the bottom of the page, and some extra information about the film/directors/actors at the top in the larger 'info' box.
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Here is another idea for our review, this is the first A3 sheet, there is a large picture at the top which takes up a lot of the space, we feel that pictures are just as important as text in our review; as we want it to interest the reader, and not include too much text, as this could be quite boring. The picture is of the benches setting with the business man in the corner slightly, this will allow the reader to see the actor we have chosen, as this is a short film without famous actors it is unlikely that this would entice them to see the film, in the way that a well known name would do. This layout includes 5 collums of writing, and down the far right side there is a piece about the charity that our short film supports - the salvation army, with information on how to donate, we believe this could really increase our audience!
This is the second page of our second layout idea, again we have chosen to include several pictures, which will break up the text and make the layout more interesting and colourful. We have also included the circle of 'info' which will include the same key facts found on every review in Empire - as a group we prefer the idea of this being made out of cardboard, like the first idea. Again there is going to be a quotation from the reviewer at the bottom of the page, and some extra information about the film/directors/actors at the top in the larger 'info' box.-x-
We have decided that we would definitely like to use 2 double spreads for our review, after looking at Empire magazine it was clear that a whole 4 page feature on our film would be a better idea, giving us more space to write a longer review and include more pictures. We have been working on making a mock review using photoshop, which is similar to the first images I uploaded here, as a group we think that this looks really good and works the best, as it allows us to include a balance of pictures and text, without there being too much of either.
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