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.