Initial Review Ideas - Alex Lloyd

As you can see I have designed the template of the review in a similar way to the Little White Lies review with the image of the film taking up almost 50% of the page. We have planned for Milo's review to be a full page review and have looked at many of Little White Lies reviews in order to analyse what typical conventions are used in each.

The house style of Little White Lies review layout always includes a Box with 'Directed By' and 'Starring' written in and a smaller box with 'Released' in. The colours of these boxes always contrast and are colours that may represent the featured film of the magazine, in the case below they are pink and green for 'This Is England'.

• The reviews always give a rating out of 5 for 'Anticipation', 'Enjoyment' and 'Retrospect', these ratings are found at the end of the articles.
• In the bottom right corner of the page there is always a page number next to a specific logo for the feature film, again it may represent the film or be an object that is seen and noticed of being in the film. For the 'This Is England' issue, the logo is a tear drop, this may due to the sadness shown throughout the film.
• There is always a 4 column text layout.
• Title in Capitals - box infill in contrasting colour.
• First line in first column in Bold.
• The text is always in a font similar to Ariel.
• In most of the reviews there are typographical effects seen throughout the magazine, these may be hand drawn images/graphics and are always related to the feature film. For example, in the 'Where The Wild Things Are' issue, there are hand drawn monsters and sketches seen on most pages within the magazine.

For my initial idea, I made sure I followed all of these conventions adding some logos and colours that represent our film. I have made the boxes green and light blue to connote the green countryside and the blue sky seen in our short. They also contrast quite well. The logo I would include at the bottom by the page number is a bottle of alcohol, this is an icon of our film with the key theme of alcoholism. We have discussed what typograhical effects would be included if our film was the featured film of the magazine and have come up with many ideas. We can see them being hand drawn sketches of tree's, tears and alcohol bottles. These conventions would be kept throughout the magazine.