Sunday, 17 March 2013

Construction: Review page

The idea of our review page initially was to have blackboard-like background on which there would a mind map which would give pointers to how to be successful. We started on it but as we continued, it started turning out totally different of what we had planned earlier. The blackboard effect created seemed alright but the mind map on it seemed rather messy and gave it a very untidy, unorganized look. It also seemed to not follow the codes and conventions since the article we had written was not in column forms so we decided to change the page completely because we felt following the codes and conventions is a MUST since it works to aid audiences understanding, convenience and basically what they are aware and used to of.



When re-doing it, decision of using the same image as the one on our poster was made because we felt that it would aid to the linking of all our media texts and would enable audience to identify spontaneously which film the magazine/article is talking about. We were confident of using the same image everywhere because it was one of the codes and conventions too. Often films like Twilight and Harry Potter have same images on each of their media products. 

The article this time was written in columns and smaller text in the font 'Times New Roman' and information about the film such as the release date, running time, film directors and cast were written above the main text and were highlighted by adding two horizontal line above and below the text so to make it stand out from rest of the page to draw peoples attention.
The idea of doing so was taken from another movie review page.

Apart from that the film title was written in the same font, once again to maintain the link between our products. 

The 'Movie Review' header is given on the top right corner of the page,  written in 'MS Reference Sans Serif' font. It is written in a larger font size so that it is easily readable and the reader knows what the page is about.

Lastly the most important feature of the page, the name of the magazine that features our short film review. It is written in the top left corner of the page and the font used is the same as of the magazine original title font style.

After completing the page we gained audience feedback from the audience to know how they thought the page looked. Upon feedback we came to know that the page was looking 'empty' and sort of incomplete and therefore suggested us to add a quote from the film or the review so that the reader, when skimming through the magazine pages stops at the review page, knows what the article is about to say. 

Thereby, upon their feedback we added a quote to our page which was taken from the article and written in the same font i.e. Dadhand. 

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