Magazine Review Page- Total Film Style 2

This second post is a continuation of the review page deconstruction I did from the Total Film magazine. Unlike my first example, this page features a range of film reviews (6 to be precise) as opposed to just one, and so the layout and conventions are slightly different in order to maintain concise but informative critical articles. 

Despite the reviews being different sized, all of them retain similar tropes. The image, film title, star rating, release date and journalist's name are all present on each review over this double-paged spread. So even though it appears that some of the reviews are given more priority than others, these stylistic similarities express the cohesion between each review and the desire to treat each film with the same structural features. 

The big reviews in my last post included an introductory paragraph that was identified in bold text. Even though the review above is significantly reduced in terms of word count, the magazine still prints the opening paragraph in bold, suggesting that the article is of a sufficient length to justify an introduction, main point and then conclusion. This review is also significant enough on the page to warrant a witty catchline, in this case 'vine craft' which is a pun on the gaming hit 'Minecraft'. Capitalising of the first letter and establishing the verdict of the article are also present here. This particular review doesn't include an 'Interest Curve' mainly due to spacial issues on the page, whereas the review on the opposite page has room to show this. What this suggests is that the 'Interest Curve' is not a main part of every review, giving it an exclusive presence when it does occur. 

With these four reviews along the bottom, it could be observed that the articles themselves are more like extended 'verdicts', offering a brief but critical interpretation of the film. The lack of enough space on the page results in the witty catchline, film facts, photo tagline and official verdict being excluded from the print. It shows that the publishers are selective about which films deserve more focus and also acknowledge the type of films that readers want to see reviewed in greater depth. 

This is another double page of the review section of a Total Film magazine. Again this differs in its layout from all of the other pages I have photographed over these two posts, going so far as to review 10 individual films. To me it seems as though there is no fixed structure for a film review page, as long as there is a sense of continuity in terms of the features and colour scheme used to print it.