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Wednesday 2 December 2015

What are the Layout Conventions?

Layout Conventions:
The style of Little White Lies is referred to as a 'house style'. The main image, taken from the film, takes up the top 3rd of the page in colour and is always rectangular. Followed by title - centered underneath, in the font 'Century Gothic' - it is the largest font on the page as well as in a different colour to further show its importance. 
   Underneath this is the films information: The names of the director, the starring actors/actresses and the release date. These are in the font 'Aparajita' and the information is in italics and lowercase whilst the names and date are in bold and uppercase - all centered below the title. 
   For the review itself is all in the font 'Aparajita'. It begins with a 'drop capital' and every review has 5-6 indented paragraphs, the text is in the 'justify' format (meaning all the text is equally spaced and centered). All film titles are in italics and most actors are names in brackets, the writers name is in bold and upper case at the end of the review. 
   The 'tripartile ranking' system is their way of finalising the film, the 3 categories: anticipation, enjoyment and in retrospect are marked out of 5 and are accompanied by explanatory text on each review. In the layout it is underneath the end of the review and is kept in line with everything else so the review overall is uniform. The font continues on from the review: the titles in uppercase and underlined with the comments lowercase, however the numbers are in century gothic where they are bolder. 
    The last note on the layout is the 'Review' on the left margin in the font 'microsoft yahei' to note the section and clearly state the page is a review. Along with the page number, in 3 digits centered at the bottom. 

Dimensions:
Width: 196mm
Length: 245mm 
Each column of text is 52.4mm wide (flexible) and 107mm long.
Total text review width is 168mm x margin either side. Length is 217mm + margins top and bottom. 
The image is 70mm x 168mm (flexible). 

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