magazine review page production

this is how i started. i basically looked at the basic, layout of the Total Film, magazine review page. I put everything where everything is suposed to be.



This was the second step. i recreated the page by adding the pictures of other films reviewd at the bottom of the page aswell as adding the small reviews and information about the film.


this is the final, step befor adding the actual picture from my own film.

magazine review research

Film magazine reviews research

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Film reviews

Film reviews are a form of film criticism which is a simple analysis of a film, to let people know about a certain film, evaluating the artistic side of things, and how much it would appeal to a public. Film goers often use the to decide what film is good at the moment, or whether a film they anticipated is as good as they thought and basically “even worth paying to see”

As the number of film fans following the advice of reviewer grew, film companies saw profits diminish across a broader number of films. In order to counter this development, film studios increased marketing budgets and avenues of marketing to create more interest in a movie prior to the opening.

Online film review magazines

Online magazines personally are the future, as they be shared in so many ways by the touch of a button, number of social networking sits for example face book, is an example of this. A lot of online magazines these days have a little banner at the banner dedicated to sharing the article, or sharing your views about what you though of the article.

Blogging has also introduced opportunities for a new wave of amateur film critics to have their opinions heard. These review blogs may focus on one genre, director or actor, or encompass a much wider variety of films. Friends, friends of friends, or complete strangers are able to visit these sites, and can often leave their own comments about the movie and/or the author's review.

Some magazines are dedicated to a certain genre or, audience for example; some films are dedicated to only writing about horror film rereleases, such as shock horror magazine.
Others are dedicated to sale budget productions; these are mostly based on the web, as this is easier and quicker as well as very cheap to produce in comparison to creating your own mainstream magazine.

This means that the style of certain magazines can be very different. Some film dedicated to young people for example would you language less than formal or humorous to appeal to their particular audience.

tittles research

Film tittles are not really considered important as audience really pay attention to them straight away however, they help the look and theme of the film, and just pull everything together, I guess that would be the main aim of our title sequence, an example of this would the animation film coralline, the theme of the movie is dolls, and making and fabric ect.... and this is shown through in the tittles. With using buttons as O’s and having names go through needles ECT... These small things look very effective.



the true blood opening sequence is also effective in the same way, the tittles reflect the series theme, of blood and as i said befor it just pulls everything together, nothing is out of place or random it just all ties in. this is what i hope my group and i are able to acheive with our tittles.

stop motion animation- tittles reseache

As an individual task, I have been taking care of researching different kinds of interesting titles which we could use in our film, I have looked at famous opening sequences by people such as the famous soul bass, but out of everything what has taken my interest is the opening sequences of animations, not just any however but stop motion animation. Here is some back ground information about it.


Stop motion (also known as stop action or frame-by-frame) is an animation technique to make a physically manipulated object appear to move on its own. The object is moved in small increments between individually photographed frames, creating the illusion of movement when the series of frames is played as a continuous sequence. Clay figures are often used in stop motion for their ease of repositioning. Motion animation using clay is called clay animation or clay-mation.






Now with this I thought it would interesting and different if we used this concept for our tittles, as our film is very visual based we want the them of the red string to follow through from middle to end, so I thought it would be quiet cool if we could have a stop motion opening sequence with the red strings, spelling out cast and crew names, its an idea which am aware needs to be developed, but i also know could work.



Another idea I gained from this video below was to maybe have fabrics saying the names of cast and stuff, scattered everywhere however bring them together, sort of draw them together, with the red string, like in the video.



these vedios below are now more relevent to our them and kind of portrays what my vison is, the red string.

production meeting video part 1

production meeting video part 2