Review Page Draft 1

Here is the first draft for my double-page-spread film review page. I am very happy with this first draft and feel I have achieved some of the initial aspects I wanted to achieve for this page.
The first thing I like about my double-page-spread is the headline. It ultimately took me a while to find the right font which would fit the overall style of this page. I chose the Britannic Bold font on Photoshop because I felt it gave that bold, yet stylish feel which is an aspect of this page I wanted to achieve. I also decided to position it over the top of the text, similar to the double-page-spread of Skyfall. I believe this fits the typical conventional features of a real-life film magazine, which in tern allows my headline to apply the level of professionalism acquired from other magazines onto my double-page-spread. I have also added the red line underneath the headline, separating both the headline and the columns of text which I believe shows another professional quality to this page.

Going into the red line and the red text, I wanted to ultimately show another colour of text to keep the audiences interested in reading this page. I have seen certain magazines in general use one specific colour for their text, which can sometimes almost overwhelm the reader with a repetitive colour scheme which can lead to boredom within the reader. Because my background is very dark, using white text ultimately allow my writing and other elements such as my headline to stand-out. However, my point is that the same colour of text through-out the whole page can look boring and could potentially make the reader uninterested in reading this review page. Allowing other colour to come into the page, regarding the text, allows the audiences eye to be directed to that section of the page because of the fact it's a different colour than the rest of the text. It's also a way of separating different information such as the main review itself and for example what I've done here is shown information about the crew of the film. This allow for another stylistic feature which keeps the page looking fresh and interesting.

At the bottom of the page I have put a website address in a small font. I did this to keep with the common conventions of other film magazines (such as Total Film) to ultimately make my magazine keep the professional tone I believe I have already created in this page. Also, you can see I've added chosen title idea (mentioned on the title idea post) to keep with my chosen research, and also add more real-media qualities shown in other film magazines to show even more conventional traits.