Layout conventions of a Film Review- Imogen Salmon

Layout conventions of a Film Review- Candice Tyson

Layout conventions of a Film Review- Mae Webb

Here is an practise that we did of creating a template on In Design for a Little White Lies review. We used all of the technical details to create this and we can now use this as a template for our final review.

Layout conventions of a Film Review- Charlotte Hudson

 

• The review uses a variety of font types: 'Aparajita', 'Century Gothic' and 'Yahei'. The bulk of the text however is Aparajita.
• The use of bold capitals is also used a lot- to highlight important people and dates and also to highlight the categories of the review.
• Everything is center aligned, and the 3 columns of text are aligned with the image at the top of the review. The columns are justified to the left, however the very last column is justified to the right and so is the text in the review column.
• the column lengths are around 100mm and the width is 52.4mm
• The ratings are justified to the right and are in the font 'Century Gothic' and the different categories are all marked out of 5. 
• The first letter in the first column is 3 lines in depth and 5 letters wide and is also font 'Century Gothic'.
• The title is the boldest section of writing and you lower case letters, only capitalising the first letter of each word.
• Italics is used a lot throughout, when telling the reader who directed the film, started in the film and the release. Also used in the marked out of 5 columns (these are comments made by other reviews so are italicised for that reason.
• The image width never changes but the length varies depending on how much writing there is.

Technical details of Film Review for LWL- All Of Us

Overview of LWL- All Of Us

 

This information is taken from 250 UK readers of LWL

• The Target Audience for LWL seems to be the older audience (25-35) as 51% of people around this age read the magazine.
• 63% of readers are male, whereas only 37% are female
• Shockingly only 3% of under 18's read this magazine.
• This suggests that the older audiences enjoy learning more about films and are really interested in the film industry. It suggests that in their spare time they like to read and watch films, compared to an under 18 who would like to go out or play video games.

• This shows that 6% of males go to the cinema 11+ times per month, as 63% of males read LWL they could also be part of the 6% that visit the cinema the most.
• 22% of the LWL reader's survey go to the cinema 5-10 times per month, which suggests that a large bulk of the percentage of viewers go to the cinema often- from the information known about the main audience, majority of the 22% will be people aged between 25-35.
• The readers of the magazine, 93% of the readers keep the magazine and read it from front to back, this suggests that the audience of the magazine are real film fanatics
• 53% of the audience only read LWL and no other film magazine 

What is Little White Lies? 

• Little White Lies is a film magazine, that speaks about new films that are released. They hit a variety of film genres, Hollywood Block busters and Independent UK Films
• The magazine is aimed at film fanatics, that love knowing the ins and outs of actors etc within the films being released. 
• http://www.littlewhitelies.co.uk/ -- link to their website and the online version of the magazine

The Ancillary Task Two- Writing a Film review for LWL- All Of Us

Rationale for the Film Review

LWLs editorial staff are interested in independent, non-mainstream film makers, as well as the usual mainstream movies, reflected in the copy overall, but also in reviews

there is an interest in the magazine in experimental and alternative styles of film making, often found in short films

the magazine reports on the nominees and winners of international film festivals - often the first place a short film is showcased

the magazine targets a student audience (perhaps also specifically students in subjects such as Media, Film, Cultural Studies) , and this is useful for us as many of your films target an audience of your age (students) with film knowledge

the magazine has strong links with the Picturehouse chain of cinemas, which screens short films every day as part of the main film programme (virgin media shorts)

no other film magazine carries reviews of short films, instead, usually focussing on very mainstream films (you can provide evidence of this)

~Need to add evidence/change some words~