Friday, 3 February 2012

Review Design 3 - Caroline



I have changed some font sizes and style in this design, and added a page number and information box.

After asking for public opinion and taking into account our personal opinion, we have decided that we prefer this image on the review and therefore this is the design that we are going to use in our final piece.

It has been modelled on this 'Little White Lies' review:


In researching 'Little White Lie's' reviews, the profile that we gained was as follows:



http://www.littlewhitelies.co.uk/theatrical-reviews - this website was helpful in researching the house style of the magazine's reviews.


Target Audience

  • Young
  • Student
  • Educated
  • Multi-gender
Language Style

  • Complex Nouns and Verbs
  • Puns
  • Metaphors
  • Similes
  • Restricted Code
  • Elaborate Description
  • References to other film texts and literary sources.
  • Evaluative comments, opinion.
  • Plot description
Function: To inform, entertain and outline their audience.

Layout

  •  Simplistic theme


  • Writer in bold at end of article











  • First letter bold and same colour as title

  • Image rounded at the corner



  • Indented paragraphs
  • 5-6 parargraphs


  • Justify paragraphs on both right and left





  • Information box under title stating, Director, Starring and Released (in regular text, the information in italics)

  • Summary box underneath article stating Anticipation, Enjoyment and In Retrospect (only justifed left and in italics) with information in regular text style

  • Each summary category has a rating our of 5 and this rating is in same colour as title

  • Each summary category is split with a double black line



  • 3 collumns of text



The two reviews used for these exampes were:



This video was also helpful in deciding how to match the house style:


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