I have taken inspiration from Empire magazine for my review page for my short film. I did a couple of rough sketches and detailed sketches plus showing it to my class for audience feedback before I came up with this my final template for my review.
My Aim:
For the audience: I want to create an eye catching layout, with a large title and large image to entice the audience to read my review of a possibly unknown film and even want to watch it.
Font: I will use a 1 space column rule/gutter between each column of the main article. As Empire says...
"We only use 3 fonts in the entire magazine which are variations of Jack, Alvar and Farnham-
The Talking point font is Alvar bold and the text after it is Jack bold. The Verdict uses the font Jack Regular and the text after it is Jack Bold."
As I do not have the facilities for these font's I will be using Ariel, Baskerville Old and maybe Times New Roman. I will have justified columns as I have 4 quite tight columns of writing and I don't want it to be confused while having 1/2 spacing between the lines. If it has enough space I will change this to ragged right like the typical Empire Magazine, with using a drop-capital to start the main article. And all text written in black.
Pictures: I will have a main image and a secondary image with details of both of them placed in the bottom right hand corner describing the image, just like Empire magazine. I am going to use images from my short film (still from the film). My main image is of the couple sitting on the tube both looking out the carriage window. My secondary image is of the man at the end of the film on a bridge looking just right of the camera.
Colour Scheme: My colour scheme would be blue, red and white with the text being black (to stand out). This is because it relates to my film as it is tube colours. This will add continuity to the main image and give the idea of the film (commuting) to the audience.
Quotes: I will have a teaser - a pulled quote - that is going to be a different colour from the usual text, different size and font. This will attract the audience to read the review as it will grab their attention and if it is an interesting quote, they will want to read the review. Which is my main aim!
Audience Feedback:
- Based on Empire magazine really works... but state why it would be Empire? Maybe ass an award that it won, such as Virgin Shorts? This would give it a reason to be in a prominantly feature film magazine.
- Audience? How to make it really eye catching?
- The layout is interesting and well spread out to ensure easy reading.
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