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Thursday 31 January 2013

Final Film Review Magazine Page

This is the final piece for our first ancillary task, a magazine film review article.


I personally think Matt did an excellent job with creating an authentic magazine film review! It all looks very realistic and appropriate for a magazine article to be about. He followed all the of guidelines and research aspects that we had previously researched and created a great piece.

One of the aspects I noticed had a strong point and build to it was Matt's focus on and use of fonts. I really love all of the fonts he chose, along with all the sizes and styles. They all match exactly what we had researched previously and looked really great in our product, which is great for looking professional and authentic.

I also really liked his colour palette of the article. Just using a simple black, white and red colour scheme was very bold and provided the idea of simplicity; which is what our film is about in some aspects. The colours were also not too bright or suggestive of any ideas that we didn't want to represent our film with. For example, if he had coloured the page bright pinks with purples and yellows, the page would have looked very stereotypically aimed at females, which is not our aim. By using the palette he did, we could aim at all ages, genders and classes due to its simple nature.

I do however think the photo that was used was edited a little too much. Apparently, Matt received a criticism that told him to lighten the picture a little bit because it was 'too dark' for the page. However, I feel it has either been lightened a little bit too much or didn't need any manipulation in the first place. Luckily though, it still looks like it fits on the page so it wouldn't prove much of a problem if it were a real article.

Matt also came across a technical difficulty during the production of this piece. As he was placing and organising the content text, he found that there wasn't enough textual information to fit in the columns. He didn't want to just change the size of the font to a bigger one to allow it to stretch and fit because he felt it didn't look like a real magazine article then, as they usually follow a same 'copycat' or default style and size when it comes to font. So, he created a little more content for the article and tried to keep it sounding accurate to the rest of the text. The fact that it is barely noticeable where he added more texts suggests he followed the research, themes and style of the text perfectly, meaning there would be no trouble with the final piece.

Overall, I think the magazine review is very accurate to what would realistically be posted within a film based magazine. It matches the typical conventions of other magazine review articles, particularly ones about social realist films, and looks like it would promote our film quite nicely. I do not mean the content itself, but the whole presentation of the film throughout design and the fact there is LOTS of information would definitely boost the films popularity and overall success.

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