Setting out a magazine review

Before we could digitally create our magazine review using Adobe InDesign (In this we will be able to add pictures we have selected especially for the review and add the plot and review itself - see below), we had to explore different examples of reviews and decided if we had a favourite layout.

When you look at Empire magazines coverage of film reviews; there is an easy, colloquial setting which is not hard to follow. The pictures are large and often the review is spread on a double page spread. When looking at other review editions such as those of The Independent, you can see a no nonsense theme, with no or one pictures- they stick to formality. We feel that a layout similar to that of Empire would be suitable for our review, as it will allow for extra photography and a fun layout.