After doing a detailed deconstruction of an Empire, review page I decided to use some of the typical conventions they used to construct a simpler version, suited for a school magazine. In my plan I used the block squares to frame my review and separate some the text, to give it a clearer structure. I also used the same layout Empire used for their film information section, except that I situated my information next to my main image, as opposed to underneath, as I wanted to separate it from the main body of my text.
After which, I created a style sheet in photoshop with 'x's to represent my text and used a production shot I hads in mind to see how the design would work. I liked the overall effect the layout and felt that it was quite clear and consice, except that I found that the spacing was very limited in places, whilst other places were left with huge ammounts of white spacing. Therefore I had to re-work the layout and spacing, as I realised I had a lot less text than shown in this plan.
Firstly I added text and a main image to my review page then I was suggested to make the title fit the whole width of the page, as my teacher felt that it was lost in the composition; where I'd put it originally.
However I didn't like this as I felt it didn't look proffessional and it swamped my tag line. Furthermore I was still facing problems with a lot of white space in the right hand corner and my main image and film information felt cramped.
Therefore in order to eliminate these problems I made the main image bigger so that it dominated the left hand side of the double page. Then used the empty space in the right hand side to spread out my film information and make my title and tag line clearer. Moreover in order to get rid the problems I was having with the white spacing, without adding a highly detiled and expensive print background, I filled it with a light blue.
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