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Film Review

FILM REVIEW EVALUATION

(due to the size of the film review, it is displayed below the evaluation)

This film review was written for a magazine that I invented called "Viral Magazine". The magazine is all about technology, media and everything around that. I chose to write my review for this magazine because it relates to my target audience who's lives revolve a lot around the media and technology. This review would also fit in Empire Magazine because it follows a similar layout and colour scheme. This film review follows a similar layout to other film reviews that really do exist in the world. After doing a lot of research on film reviews a few things became clear, film reviews found in magazines always have the same features: photo(s) from the film, the film title, quotations from famous people within the media or film industry, there is a rating on the film and the review itself talks about the best and worst parts of a film. These features can also be found in my film review, the main photo (the biggest one) is a key moment in the film and is interesting. The film title is in the biggest font and the colour scheme for the whole film review is a dark red. The review itself talks about the directors (myself and Megan), the actors, the editing, the camerawork and the film of the plot. The quotations from famous people are from Rian Johnson who directed the neo noir we studied earlier, Brick. He is also currently directing the new Star Wars film which shows that he's relevant in the film industry and knows what he's talking about. I have a screenshot of Kanye West's twitter account showing that he used the social media platform Twitter to talk about Chantage. This is relevant because not only is he a huge public figure in the media but it's also Twitter which is commonly used by my target audience. The final quotation is from Leonardo Dicaprio who is another influential man in the film industry who is also admired by my target audience. The actual film, Chantage didn't turn out as great as we hoped so writing about it positively was hard, however I did pick out good points on actors who played especially well and specific scenes in the film that worked exceptionally well.

Chantage Film Poster

In order to create this final film poster I had to take a series of photographs using vivid lighting, reflectors and flash guns in order to create the shadows and brightness of the photo. I took separate images of Holly's hand holding the revolver and another of Holly's hand holding the lipstick. In Photoshop I combined the two best images in order to show the gun pointing at the lipstick. I also had to create separate layers of the nails and lipstick in order to keep them in colour whilst the rest of the image was in a high contrasted black and white filter. Although Photoshop didn't have the same font as Final Cut Pro (American Typewriter) I was able to find a similar font that had a similar typewriter effect that worked perfectly. My poster is a teaser poster so it doesn't have as much information as a regular film poster might contain, this kept the poster simple and easy to read which really helped when choosing the location of my film poster. The information that is found on the poster is the title (Chantage, the release date, starring characters, directors names, writers names, the film tag line and the production company. The poster doesn't really give much away about the film however you can tell that this poster is linked to the film as not only is the font the same, but the gun was the gun used in the film and the red lipstick and nail vanish link clearly to the film.

FILM POSTER LOCATION

The location and format that I have chosen to display and advertise my film are on billboards that are located in popular cities such as New York City, London and others. This way thousands of people will see the poster because they're in highly populated areas and the billboards are huge so therefore are visible from very far distances. Due to the location of billboards I made sure that the poster was simple and easy to read because when driving past a billboard unless in heavy traffic it's hard to take in high amounts of information within seconds. To the right are two examples of the billboards I might advertise on, the first is located in New York City, just outside of main city centre. The one below is in another city (most likely located in America) that is next to a busy road. The film poster is also majority in black and white which symbolises the genre of film noir. The gun shows that there is action/murder in the film and the lipstick along with the tagline shows that the murderer is probably female. The fact that a feminine hand with red nails is also making it very obvious that the villain is a woman. The film poster also highlights the importance of red which again links to the film noir conventions of having a femme fatale involved.