Trial of Techniques

In this post I will showcase some of the techniques that I have developed and some new techniques that I have learnt in the process of creating a preliminary draft for the review page.

I haven't included any of the review itself because as of yet, we haven't finished creating our final piece and hence there isn't anything to review. However, in the final piece, the review will be contained within several adjacent columns. Furthermore, there are many aspects that I have left out such as page numbers and other conventions of Empire magazines. The aim of this was not to create the final piece in lots of detail, but to try out different techniques that were listed in the online tutorial post. 

The image of Morgan does not feature him in Seb's costume, I simply chose this image because I really like the look and feel of it. I manipulated the image to be of just him and that required the use of many different tools and was perhaps the most time consuming. Although I really like how it turned out in the end, I think that for the final piece I will stick to the full image as this is more conventional of a film review and it will help us to retain our brand identity. I also really like how the 'in cinemas' part of the double page spread turned out, it looks just like the way it does in empires actual magazines and this will be something I definitely carry forward.

I do not like the title as much though. this is very unconventional for Empire, but it does retain our brand identity because Jake has used this same font in his draft of the poster. Going forward, I will have to decide on any changes that I want to make to this layout.   

By Oliver Wain