Little White Lies Layout Conventions - Little White Lies Research - Review Research

Little White Lies Layout Conventions - Little White Lies Research - Review Research

As a group, we have to create a review for our short film. This review has to be created in the style of the Little White Lies Magazine. The layout of our review will be vital in making it look like it was from the Little White Lies Magazine. Therefore, to make sure that the review looks professional and like it was from the magazine we have had to do some research into the layout conventions of the magazine.

Main Page:

The main page is not a traditional A4 size instead the page size that Little White Lies use is 245mm by 195mm.

Image:

At the top of every short film review in Little White Lies, there is an image that is relevant to the film that is being reviewed. This image will most likely be edited in Photoshop, which is an image editing package, before it is put into the desktop publishing application like InDesign.

The image has very specific dimensions which are a height of 77mm and 168mm in width. So what we will do is create a box within the template for the review that has these measurements and then when we have edited the image that we would like to put in this space we will just drag it into the box.

Title:

The title of the short film appears just bellow the image. This is quite a large text size with a bold font to make it stand out to the reader so that it is clear to them. The font for this text is Century Gothic.

Information About The Film:

Just below the short film title, there is some information about the film. This information is in a small font using the Aparajita font using both the bold and italic font styles. The information that is included in this is the director, the actors that star in the film and the release date of the film.

Content:

The main content of the review is split into 3 columns. Each of the columns is 101mm by 54mm, however, the column that is to the right of the page is only half the size of the others to make room for the rating system that Little White Lies gives to all of the short films that they review. Also, at the very start of the main content, there is a drop cap that takes up 3 lines. The font for the drop cap is Century Gothic and then the font for the rest of the main content is Aparajita.

Review Rating:

Little White Lies has a unique rating system that they use to rate all of the short films that they review. They use a 1 to 5 rating system with 3 different areas. The areas are Anticipation, Enjoyment and In Retrospect. There will be a little comment with each area and then an overall score for each area out of 5.

Page Number:

At the bottom of the page, there is a page number. The interesting thing about this is that it has a 0 in front of the number. Also, most of the reviews tend to the towards the back of the magazine so when we create our we must make sure that the number is above page 60.

Review:

On the side of the page, there is text that says REVIEWS. This is a small text size and it is in the Microsoft Yahei font.