Preparation + Development: My Film Review Page

I have chosen to do a film review page similar to that of the 'Boys to Men' article in my previous post. This is because i think that this is more likely to be attractive to my target audience rather than a text heavy article.

The background for my double page spread:

The addition of the title:

The addition of clips from the short film:

The addition of a 'meet the director' block:

The addition of the text:

Preparation + Development: Film Review Page

Here are some examples of exisitng Film review pages from magazines. These show that there are a few different ways to layout a film review, aswell as the text to picture ratio can be changed depending on what the writer chooses to focus on.















In this review page there are stills from the actual film embedded into the page in order to show the characters and some of the actions from the film. i.e Drug taking. (the girl far left). This is then mixed in with text, there is a block of text at the botton left which is the main body of the review whoever the text in red appears to be a (tagline?). This Layout is more likely to appeal to a younger audience as it is less text heavy, which means that a younger reader is more likely to stop and read this article over my next example.

This review page is more of a standard layout with the pictures covering the upper 2/3 of the double page spread and the text confinded into a block at the bottom. This review covers more of the detail through text rather than use of pictures. I think that this article is likely to be aimed at an older reader, or a reader who is finaticle about film. This is due to the level of text in comparason to the images, it appears to be heavy in detail about the film and therefore a younger reader may not be willing to read the whole article.

Finally this is another way to layout a review page. The majority of this review page is covered with pictures of the characters from avatar with a small amount of writing in comparason. This could be as the writter does not want to give too much of the story away to the reader.

Preparation + Development: Audience Feedback on Poster

Preparation + Development: My Final Movie Poster

This is my final movie poster, I chose the same font for the title and release date that I have used for the title in the short film itself in order to create some continuity between the two. The reason why i chose the shape in the middle is because i think that is represents two hearts that are being pulled apart from eachother, which in turn represnts the ending of a relationship and the breaking of a heart which the poem is about.

Preparation + Development: My Movie Poster

Screen Shots of the Process of making my Movie Poster:

Preparation + Development: My Short Film Changes

After showing my footage to my class i realized there where a few aspects i needed to sort out, this version is with the minor tweaks done so that i can now continue to work on putting together the added extras and finishing it.