Flat Plans

Here is a general sketch as to what I want the lay-out of my double-page-spread to look like. Firstly, I have added a headline over the top of my columns of text to follow the typical conventions of a real media film magazine, such as Total Film. Having the headline laid-out like this will appeal to the audience because it will stand-out at the top of the page. In many films magazines they place the headline at the top of the page to allow the audiences eye to be drawn instinctively to that element of the page. The headline is one of the most important things, if not the most important aspect of drawing the reader into a certain page in a film magazine. Combined with a bold font for the headline and a colour which allows the headline to stand-out in front of either a dark or primarily light colour palette, I believe positioning the headline here will stand-out very effectively to the reader, drawing them into reading about this film.

As you can see, I have wrote 'Main Image' on the background of the double-page-spread. I want to have the whole background as one image from our short film. I have initially planned this because I saw a magazine featuring the film Skyfall with their entire background as one image from their film. I felt it looked very professional and stood-out from other DPS's because of the lay-out. I believe using one image as the background of a double-page-spread is also a very stylistic and bold choice to make because of the fact it's quite an unconventional approach to the typical lay-out you normally find with images on a review page. Conventionally a magazine will use two, maybe three images to show different aspects of the film. Even though I like this approach, I wanted to go against conventions in terms of how an image it typically laid-out to basically make my magazine stand-out from other film magazines.

In terms of the text, I have used the conventional trait of using three columns of text, a normality for film and other genre's of magazine. I want my page to acquire a professional aura which audiences are hopefully drawn to. I also want to use three columns because I want to add a lot of detail to my review to make it a substantial and defining review in which the reader can judge whether they want to see this film or not, based on the plausible information given. I have not yet determined what colour the text will be, this will be explored more once I have found a suitable image for my background and work with the colour palette of that image.

As you can see in the top left-hand corner, I have added a small rectangular box which says 'film name'. I also got inspiration from the double-page-spread review of Skyfall where they put the name of the film in a small black rectangle, combined with bold white text. I believe this stylistic feature  will work well with this page. This also goes against conventions because you would normally associate the name of the film to be shown in a larger font, allowing it to be the main focus point of the page. However, with the inspiration from the Skyfall double-page-spread, I felt it would be interesting to go against typical conventions to make the page look more stylistic for the benefit of the reader.