Evaluation Task:34

Final Film Task:33

Final DPS Task:24

Here is my final double-page-spread review page. Looking at the design further their has been slight tweaks from the original flat plans and the draft versions. The key aspect that has changed from the draft is the colour for the background. As discovered from my survey results I have seen that the audience wanted dark colours. However as seen in the draft that didn't turn out successful and wasn't easy to read, for this reason I have gone with a simple, clean and professional white background as i wanted function over design as a key part for the information side of things.

Other slight fixes include Font change, coloured rating system and also I have separated the images to give some clean differentiation between them and also incorporate some of the background so they don't appear over the whole page.

I am very happy with the way my review page has turned out. Initially I was worried about the layout choice and the text content but in the end I am very happy. In terms of the review itself, I wanted to write something which was captivating and gave certain teasers and insights that allowed for a slight description of this film. However, the amount of information given is only enough to allow for the reader to be intrigued and wanting to watch the film. This was a key aspect of the DPS that I was worried about because if I got it wrong it could have meant I either gave away to much making it have a low appeal rate or not giving enough that no one was wanting to see the film. To find out how to perfect it I was always re looking over professional DPS to compare.

In addition to content parts such as colour was key to allowing this review to appear smart, stylish and above all be pleasant to the eye. When looking at such magazines like Little White Lies and Sight and Sound I found out that the colour was mostly muted with key parts or accents being in an alternating colour to break up the page. For this I used Red as my colour of choice, and I believe this worked well. I like the way the colour separates the large amount of text and pull the audience into parts such as the rating system that I have used. This in obviously a major part in many other magazines so I believe the incorporation of it in mine has helped a lot.

A conventional trait of many real life film magazines is the rating system and more in depth information. I ultimately believe I have followed this style and convention to the best of my abilities and this resulted in a professional review page.

Final Poster Task:11

Here is an image of my final poster. 

As shown here I haven't actually changed much in the terms of content as asking friends and family, I got all positive feed back with the most common answer being " Any more will be too crowded". However, although unclear here I have in fact gone back into the design and refined any edges along with the proper font and not a screenshot. 

Looking at this I can say that I am really happy with the result and I believe that I have linked very well with the film although being subverting. Normally, I would create the poster with a colour such as red to connote the blood. However,  looking at Little White Lies they have subverted the ordinary and have come out with a really successful outcome. 

For this poster I have focused fully on blue for the main background colour. The reason behind this is because the key part of the film was about the flashing back of Anthony into his past errors that got him into therapy. Looking online the colour blue is a symbol of sadness, remorse, heaven, and memory. All of these parts relate very well to the film and I believe allow this poster to subvert from the norm.

Sadness/Remorse:

How Anthony looks back at his mistakes and realised his wrong doing. The addition of him not wanting to talk about it suggests its a sore subject. 

Heaven/ Memory: 

This links in with the death of two actors in our film and how they have gone into the dark memories of Anthony. 

One aspect that I really like is how I have incorporated the knife into the poster. This is a key part of the film as its the thing that helps Anthony take a fix of drugs and also it is the key element and weapon that results in the killing of both Jessica and Lucy. I have gone with this as my image and not any image of the actors. This is mainly due to the reason the photoshoot wasn't planned and was cut short so the images are of good quality but were not necessarily what I wanted. In addition I wanted to subvert from the ordinary and follow styles of more illustrative movie magazines. 

I believe this style and subversion has worked well for my poster and with the knife being a prominent part allows for the viewer to be pulled into the poster wanting to see more of what behind the poster.

Another thing I like about this poster is the 'White Lies' font which I have chosen to show in a cocaine font. This was a lucky find for me as I was looking at normal fonts that are scene on many magazines. However looking down the graphical route I found out that a font was downloadable offline. This is a key part that I believe ties in the poster very well and from the offset you can see that the film is going to incorporate both a knife and Drugs. This works very well at following the style I want and also ups the quality of the final outcome.

Website

Here is a edit of mine to how our website could look if we were to create one. This would co-inside with the magazine and the name of the website would be Reel Talk. The website would be a subscription based review site that allows people to pay a monthly cost to have the reviews online instead of in paper form. The idea behind this would be to get bigger following and therefor a better name for our selves. As shown here I have put the most recent and trending film (White Lies) as the top main image. This would always be the same but would change on what film it was. At the top of the page their would also be general items that everyone can access to broaden our site viewing. These include:

Movies:
A list of new movies and past movies that we have reviewed. This would have general information, however to gain any more of it and the full review you would have to have a subscription of some kind.

News:
This would be general news that is on the top headlines in the film industry. However in general headlines this wouldn't be covered so our would allowing any one to know were to go for the best up to date information.

Reviews:
This would be the page for just reviews that have been done and the subscription access to them.

Feature:
The main features part would be for any company of film that we believe should be featured and will have a whole page dedicated to it.

Student:
To broaden the audience we would put a section that is purely about student films and experiences that they have told us about in the film industry.

Social:
Finally I would have a part for contacting us to submit or ask questions and also the link to see our social media that would have any other information on.

Draft DPS Task:23

Here is the first draft for my double-page-spread film review page.

Overall I am very happy with the drafts and I believe with a few tweaks I could get this looking very professional. The first thing I have looked at is the headline and logo. I have looked through many fonts but I believe they didn't match the exact style I wanted on their own. To fix this I designed and made the logo for the magazine. The concept behind it is a Reel from a movie camera, this therefore links in with the name of the film and the topic it will be covering. This, although little, help a lot when coming to the final draft.

I also decided to position the text of the review on a one side to allow for an easier read. In addition I believe this fits the typical conventional features of a real-life film magazine, which in tern allows a level of professionalism to be put onto my Double Page Spread.

Putting the red on the page allowed me to ultimately show another colour to keep the audiences interested in reading this page. I have seen certain other designs that appear boring and of low standard due to the fact the page has been one colour.

It's also a way of separating different information such as the main review and the rating system on the page. Intern this means I can use the colour to pull people into the key parts that I want them to know. This allow for another stylistic feature which keeps the page looking fresh and interesting.

Moving on from this draft I will look at creating the same rough layout but tweaking parts such as fonts and colour so the page looks and feels like a high standard film review magazine.

Editing Process Task:22

Here is the beginning of my editing process.

I wanted to ultimately have a very content and text dense page as I believe it appears in depth and professional for the age group I am primarily aiming my Double Page Spread to. To start of the editing I used the blue lines captured on the last image (rulers) to lay out the page how I intended.

From the Draft DPS I has a rough layout plan and therefore has a rough ideas where the rulers would need to go to divide the page and still fit in all of the information. On the left most part of the page I started by adding the lines into the page as dividers for the key information that was to come next. This along with colour is a well known way of creating neatness and pulling people in.

From here I added my rating system. This would be the part that was prominent in my magazines if I were to create more, it would be a bases to go of when looking at other film reviews. Shown in such websites like Rotten Tomatoes they have a rating system so regular viewer had some base line to go of.

Along with this I added in my logo and film title at the top of the page to start the review like a book as you read from left to right this is what I wanted people to see first. This layout so far will be exactly the same in all other reviews but will be changed dependant on the film and the rating for it ect.

Finally on the page I have added in the text that is extracted from my Draft Article. I have kept all of the information and text the same however I have incorporated it into the layout of the page with multiple text boxes to allow for it to go around the other information.