Film Review

Another Ancillary task requires me to make and construct a magazine review for my mask task of making a film. To get an idea of how these are constructed I went online and looked at current film magazine reviewers such as Empire.

Something all of my research tells me to do is learn the content thoroughly so I can talk about absolutely everything. This is where I have a advantage because I was the one creating the film and the ideas behind it are all my, so I already know about all the connotations and preferred meanings behind the films meaning.

The next tip I received was to form a specific opinion on the film that cant be misleading, like rating the film 3 stars out of film as a example. Although this could be difficult for me because I am biased towards my own film so after I have completed my audience research I will show them the film and ask to perform a anonymous survey rating the film. I will take an average from these results.

Another tip is to grab the reader immediately so briefly review a key feature of the film by quoting it and then leading it on to relevant points, but I have to make sure that I look out for spoilers because if the audience thought that I was ruining the film they wouldn't read the review.

This leads on to the next point of briefly recapping but not too much so that the user gets bored, I will have to find the balance between recapping but not over-recapping.

The next point is obvious but worth mentioning and it is to make sure you are keeping your reading interested. I can achieve this by reviewing the key points of the film not all the small talk shots. Another way is to use metaphors, paragraphs, adverbs etc. This is used to make the image of the films purpose inside the readers head indulging them even more.

Finally it is key that in my film I will stay honest throughout trying to completely reject the idea of being bias in any way possible.