Fonts

Today I have been trying out various font styles for my magazine title, 'The False Reality.' I didn't want to use a font that is really common as I felt this wouldn't make the wording standout very well, therefore I decided to look on the internet and download some more unique ones and try them out. I found this really good website called 'Dafont' which contained hundreds of different fonts that I was able to download for free. http://www.dafont.com/

Below are the names of various fonts that I tried out;

·Aubrey             ·Roadway

·Neou                ·Mabella

·Bebas              ·Jenna Sue

·Ultima            ·Clemente

·Amorino         ·Vieira

Conclusion:

In the end, I chose a font I already had on my laptop called 'Sathu' for the words 'The' and 'Reality. I then used the font 'Jenna' Sue' for the word 'False.' I used a different font for this word has this was something I had picked up from doing my research on magazines. Some of them used a different colour or a different font type for words in a title they specifically wanted to stand out, therefore I changed the font and colour of the word 'False.' 

Title:

Magazine Review Layout

Aim: To look at various layouts for my magazine film review. I looked at layouts magazines have used for articles that are not necessarily reviews however, because when considering a layout the content is irrelevant.

1. As you can see this layout is just full of text and no images what so ever have been used. This does not look intreguing to read and I don't think many people would what to read the text, therefore I would not use this layout for my review. Something I do like about it however, is that it has used collums, as this is very fitting with magazine text, plus as a reader I am drawn to the title due to the fact it is in a bright colour.

2. This is magazine layout is slightly more appealing as it does include an image and I like how an important piece of text has been taken out and put in a different colour/different font, this ensures that the reader takes notice. In some respects, therefore, it is arguably better than the first layout, having said this, I much prefer the colour of the title in the first layout. This article title is the same colour as the text, meaning it is not very eye catching.

3. This articles title is in a different colour which makes it stand out, plus it is in a far bigger size than the other two articles i've looked at. I feel the size of the text is an improvement compared to the other two. As well as the title being a better size, the image is much larger too which definitely works better than the previous articles.  Furthermore, I think its good that the first word of the article 'B' starts in a different colour.

4. I like quite a few things about the layout of this article. Firstly the fact the title has a strip of colour behind it - the page is not just completely white, which is something thats different compared to the other articles above. Secondly, the fact the title is not all in one colour it breaks it up and makes the fact she transformed in just 12 weeks a key element. This shows me that if there's a specific word I want to stand out within my title I can do this easily by simply changing the colour of the text. Another thing I like is how there is more that just one image included and that they're not parallel to each other. Furthermore, like article number 2 it contains a quote which is in a different colour and which is in a slightly bigger font, which helps break up the text well, this subtitles help to do this also. Lastly, like the article above, I like how the text starts with the letter 'J' being in a different colour, it starts the article off nicely I feel.

5. This is a layout I like. This is because it is quite different. Usually, as we have seen with the other articles the title is at the top of the page, whereas with this article a large image is right at the top. I also like the font of the title and how the colour matches well with the greenery seen in the image. This is not something I have thought about before, making the colour of a title compliment the colours seen within images. I feel this works well, however, I am not necessarily sure this would work well with my film review article. This is because I think it would be nice to include more than one image and including an image this big right at the top of the page wouldn't leave very much room for much text. Nevertheless as I do like this layout a lot, I think I will still consider using a similar style.

6. I specially like this article due to the column on the side. I think it would be good to have a separate column on the side of my review for a box containing basic information about the film, i.e. the age certificate the films been awarded. I also like how the pictures have been arranged.

Outcome: Having looked at many layouts I feel I have gained various ideas of how I want my review to be layed out. I have decided upon the following for my review;
1. To have a strip of colour at the top of my review.
2. To have a different colour for the word 'False' as this is a key word and will make it stand out to the reader.
3. To place my review text in collums.
4. To have a separate collum/table including basic information about the film.
5. To start the first letter of my review text in a bigger size font.
6. To include a quote within my review from either a director or from what has been said by the reviewer.
7. To include images with a border round them like in article number 4.

Documentary Film Review

Now I have looked at what films reviews include I have decided to focus on looking at specific reviews for my chosen genre - Documentary.

Magazine Review Examples

Now I have completed my first ancilary task, I am now going to start on my next one which is creating a Magazine Review for my short. I thought it would be a good idea to start this by looking at magazines which are known for good reviews they have written about films. One of these is Empire Magazine;

Empire Magazine was first issued in July 1989 and is the biggest selling magazine in Britain. It reviews both mainstream films and art films meaning that it appeals to a wide market. It combines regular features which are seen in majority of film magazines, with irregular features that are new and are not seen in the more ordinary film review magazines. It features film news, previews and reviews as well as a unique feature by which a classic scene/transcript is featured.

Example:
1. 'Young Adult'

Young Adult

FILM DETAILS

Certificate 15

Cast Charlize Theron Patrick Wilson Patton Oswalt Elizabeth Reaser.

Directors Jason Reitman.

Screenwriters Diablo Cody.

Running Time 93 minutes

 

Plot
Messed-up Mavis Gary (Theron), divorced, alcoholic author of adolescent fiction, heads for her home town hellbent on reclaiming ex-boyfriend Buddy (Wilson) from his inconvenient wife and newborn baby. Mavis' reputation as the beautiful mean girl at high school endures as she follows her self-absorbed path of destruction.

 

Review
The reunion of Jason Reitman, who hasn’t put a directorial foot wrong yet, with Academy Award-winning screenwriter Diablo Cody proves that Juno was no fluke. And this definitely is not Juno 2, but a scabrously funny, tragi-comic portrait of a pathological queen bitch who won’t grow up.

What a piece of work is Mavis Gary. Mavis is the eternal, unrepentant mean girl and one of those people incapable of self-editing. She just opens her mouth and says whatever she’s thinking, like great boors of today who erroneously confuse being obnoxiously rude with being honest and genuine. Mavis is not that stupid, but she is heedless. Our better angels are gasping in horror or wincing in embarrassment while she says the most awful things, but our inner meanies are savouring remarks some of us might think but few of us would ever dare to utter. Charlize Theron, in possibly her best performance yet, does a remarkable job with this potentially odious, decidedly delusional woman. While she won her Oscar for uglying up as Monster’s tormented serial killer Aileen Wuornos, her Mavis is getting slovenly but is still pretty outside — a knockout when she meticulously dolls up for a date with a mani-pedi, maquillage and dress-to-impress ritual as practised as a warrior’s preparations for battle. Inside she’s in a depressed, slobbish decline she can’t acknowledge, even as we see her unconscious hair-twiddling tic is making scabby bald patches in her scalp. We first see Mavis sprawled prostrate on the morning after the night before, flat out where she obviously fell down drunk. She’s hopelessly late with what is to be the last in a past-it series of girlie novels, and she’s indifferent to the needs of her itsy dog Dolce, who is required only fitfully as an accessory. And then her email delivers a new-baby announcement that energises her with purpose. She will rescue the old love of her life (an endearingly innocent, easygoing Patrick Wilson) from the domesticity into which he has contentedly settled.

The entire ensemble is spot-on, from the women who knew Mavis in her horrid high-school heyday to her uneasy parents. Comedian Patton Oswalt delivers a breakout turn as the classmate Mavis never noticed, a sardonic, scarred soul beaten and left permanently disabled by the kind of boys Mavis hung out with and the only one to whom she can turn now (for his garage-brewed bourbon more than his pointed insights). Some of the choicest moments are Mavis’ solo but hardly soul-searching scenes, like her solitary road trip as she zooms from Minneapolis to the burg of Mercury, rather like the Wicked Witch Of The West in her grim determination but caterwauling along to the ’90s mix tape erstwhile beau Buddy once made her. Theron’s face is an encyclopaedia of trapped-in-dolescence reactions, from giddy rapture to the “who just passed gas?” grimace of distaste. Then there are the moments she spares to work on her trashy teen opus, nonchalantly eavesdropping on gabbing girls in fast food joints for on-point titbits. What parallels there are between Mavis and Diablo Cody, also a Minnesota girl, is anybody’s guess, but Cody’s facility with real-sounding dialogue suggests she’s all ears to other people’s conversations herself. It’s a performance that easily could have been pathetic, bathetic or simply annoying, but Theron is so unbridled and yet so perfectly nuanced — and Reitman’s direction so direct and so tightly calibrated between the blackly comic and the seriously sad — you can’t have enough of her. At a safe remove.

Verdict
Smart, honest, sickeningly funny and supremely well judged in the writing, direction and acting.

After looking through reviews on Empires website it has enabled me to come up with some ideas of what my own review should incude;

▪ Title - Clear title of my Film 'The False Reality'

▪ Star rating - this is out of 5, 5 being concidered a 'classic' all the way down to 1 star where the film is considered 'tragic'

▪ Films Details - the certificate, cast, directors, screenwriters and running time

▪ Plot synopsis - this gives the reader an idea of the storyline without revealing too much as otherwise this could deter the reader from wanting to go and see the film.
▪ Pictures - a couple of pictures of characters featured in the film/scenes which are included, this helps to give the reader something visual to see and break up the text.
▪ Review - good/bad bits about the film, including the actors/actresses, how it was directed, films it is similar/disimilar too.
▪ Verdict - an overall opinion on the film taking everything into account

Final Poster!!

Poster Video

Part 1:

Part 2:

Print Screens

Below are some print screens which clearly show how my final poster was developed.

Background;

Background with Louise's image inserted;

Background darkened and made black and white;

Louise's skin tone edited;

Some shadowing added to her face/neck;

Eyes brightened and lip colour changed;

Both background and Louise made lighter;

Plastic surgery markings on her face and text added;

Production logo added to bottom right;