Audience response: film review style sheet

Once showing my film review style sheet to my teacher, my class and Michael Leedham a professional in this department, I got lots of feedback. The rigid layout that I chose has to be strict to what i intended so that all the rules were straight and in line with the images and and text. The font appeared too big and that instead of using raggedy right i should justify all of the text to fit to my rigid theme. Michael mentioned that to fit to a typical media model codes and conventions i should have a quote and a run around within my layout to make it eye catching. He also said that the text was good and so were the images as they were used to display genre and show the protagonists using stills from the film. He also liked the colours i used as he said the tube colour scheme fitted well with my film and was also a good typical media model using the 3 colour rule. The title and the tag line he said should be bigger and bolder to stand out.

poster

Typical codes and conventions of a film poster are to advertise the film. The distributions of the film posters may be all over a town on buses and billboards, there may also be a range of different posters just for one film. This ensures it to be eye catching and not repetitive. The conventions of a film poster is a large image with text like the title, bylines and certificate. The title text tends to be large and bold lettering to stand out. The smaller writting including the main actors names, tag line and release dates are below.

In my film poster I used a large main image with the title in large capitals in the middle of the poster to stand out. I also used the tag line lower town in a slightly lighter shade of grey to not over power the title, but also stand out. The anchorage is very important to reveal actors and production company. According to most conventions of a real film poster I have also used a critics quote at the top to show the audience its good reviews and attract an audience more, through word of mouth. The image stands out as it is good colour and quality, with the two protagonists at a tube station, which links to the idea of the film and effectively show the genre of the film. The genre is also effectively shown by the heart in the sky at the top of the poster.