My Week With Marilyn Review - Total Film Magazine, January 2012.
Layout
The first thing that caught my eye about this review layout is how professional and simple it looks, the text is well laid out and looks easy to read. The wording in red stands out and directs the audiences eye to key information. The film title is easy to see and also stands out in bold in the center of the page against all the other text. The simple image at the top of the page attracts the audience to the article and breaks up the text, the image is of the main character Marilyn and this lets the audience know that the film is about Marilyn Monroe without them even having to read any of the text.
Features
My favorite thing about this review is the amount of features within it. Like Empire magazine Total Film has a 'verdict' section at the end which audiences can quickly read and also a five star rating but unlike Empire magazine Total Film have other of features such as a 'predicted interest curve' graph, this intrigued me when I first looked at the article and I wanted to find out what it was about, the graph tells audiences when (in their opinion) the most interesting parts of the film are throughout the whole running time. This graph adds something different to the page which isn't just writing. Also on the page is a bubble with a 'talking point' fact in it, this is designed to give the audience some background information on the film which obviously is a 'talking point', I also found this feature to be something different and interesting. The final feature I found on this review is the 'See This If You Liked...' feature, after the heading a number of films in the same genre or which follow the same sort of narrative were listed, the idea of this is that if audience liked a film listed they would probably enjoy the film in the review, this feature influences audiences into watching the film and gives them some idea about what the film is like.
