Empire Review Page

I liked Empire's review page as the simple house style of 3 contrasting colours was stylish and something I could easily incorporate into my own school magazine review of my own short film. The bold blue, capitalised heading was centered at the top left-hand corner of each of the reviews, whilst the main photo took up the rest of the space beside it; on the right had side. This provides a simple connection and allowed a nice space for other anchorage I would need to incorporate into my own review. However i didn't like the way that the white edging around the title intruded the main photograph on this page. Never the less i did like the italicised text overlay caption on the image, as this time it was centered in a darker space of the image and didn't feel as intrusive. Moreover the same font was also used for the header also provided a simple and effective cohesion within the article. The simple and effective style also borrowed into the plain dot border to separate the breaks in text to allow the readers eye to follow the structure of the layout. Moreover block sections of colour were also use to separate and border the text to give a simple and bold layout that seemed easy enough to be used on a school magazine. Furthermore i liked how the different colour boxes worked within the contrasting colour scheme to work together and highlight different sections of the text. For instance the mustard yellow block worked well to sign post important film information:

• the release date
• certificate
• director
  
• cast
  
• running time

Furthermore this then also helped indent the 'Plot' heading to add a subtle separation whilst also keeping the text very tight. I also though that including a brief plot was a very successful way of drawing an audience in and create interest.

However as this was only a half - page review I'd have to consider the implications of using a similar layout on a larger scale for my own review, as when I looked at the larger empire reviews most of them contained large images which would not show a great deal of digital excellence.