Abira Imran's Media Blog

Having developed the poster, we know moved on to the making of a movie review page on a double page spread which we had prior experience of using for our Foundation Portfolio with the magazine. Our movie review page was to feature the main codes and conventions of a movie review page which were a two-columned layout, a main image, an intro, a secondary image and movie details. For the execution of our page, we required two images, one of which we already had available while the second one too, was available in its raw format. The raw format available was not very sufficient as it didn't have the under-privileged effect in a commercialised world which the image was to depict. This main image was shot properly during the shooting procedure however, it was nipped and tucked to give it the desired effect. The background hereby is the amalgamation of two fast-moving roads shot by Dua while the image has been skewed to give it this demented impact. Then, we decided on the text that would introduce our movie to the audience. Amongst the choice of either starting in a purely conventional way introducing the movie to the audience, lets introduce the movie review by reviews from the audience. Hence a story was written with an introduction attached with it which was then added to the page. The main details were very easily written and required no prior planning as all the information was already available to us in terms of directions, genre, production houses, casting and the likes. Conventional movie review contain a page title on the very top corner of the page. Our review page was pre-planned to be sold out through Smash magazine which is a top movie magazine for teenagers in Pakistan. The page was hence titled 'feature' as per Smash's layout to give a link to the institution.

The context behind the main image was to show the passion young children have of earning their parents' respect and how they are harassed by their parents' themselves for not being able to bring sufficient funds at the end of the day to add to the days income. The demented effect that was added to the image was to reflect the tired that one feels after constant degradation and torture and how he/she simply gives up and accepts their fate.

The colour palette for this page too was pre-determined once we had the image available to us. The costume worn by the model was chosen to be reflected in the colour scheme while the busy life in the background added activity to the page. The font used for the story and the introduction was Consolas. Text wrapping against the outline of the main image gave a very interesting effect to the story and its layout. Once the movie review page was ready, our Media teacher suggested a few changes that would lift the overall mood of the movie review. Once this was done, we had the movie review page ready