Ancillary Product 2: Film Review

This was my first attempt at a film review, I was pleased with what i wrote and how I had set the whole thing out. But I felt was a bit bare and didn't look as good as it could, as it had quite a lot of slack space that I wanted to fill. Therefore i decided to do some more research and look at professionally done reviews and see what I could add to mine to make it better. I had used the Empire Magazine website as my main point if research and had based my own film review layout largely on that one. I went back to take a look and compare my review with theirs and see what I could add to my own. I liked that they had used a screenshot from the film and I chose to use this also by inserting a screenshot into my own review. I also like the fact that you were able to 'share' the page/review with your friends with your through social network sites like Facebook and Twitter. 

I went to get the icons from the internet but I wanted to make mine different and fit in with the page, I therefore thought about changing the icons slightly to make them fit in with the colour scheme. I edited them on Photoshop to achieve this. I selected the icon using the magic wand tool, I then used the gradient tool to fill the shape this created the red to white effect I have which imitated the original black version where it goes black to white. I experimented with solid colour but it didn't look as good. I then repeated this process with the Facebook and Google+ icons to make them sort of my own. 

This therefore is my final film review:

These where the reviews I used to aid me in making my own. I thought the Empire site was a good one to use as their site is very popular and has loads of film reviews to choose from I decided to look at a film from my genre and another completely random film too. I liked how the reviews were quite short and too the point, yet they didn't give too  much of the film away whilst doing so. I also found the 'verdict' to be very honest and I agreed with what was said, this is what I intend my own film review to come across as.