Little White Lies dimensions of article

Little white lies – page layout dimensions.

You need to fit approx 500 words into the article.
Page dimensions are 200 mm by 242mm
Each of the 3 columns of text are 55 mm in width
40mm between bottom of image and top of column with text
Image is 171 mm by 84mm

You can do the rest – the title space and the ratings. Use a ruler.

Font for main body of text is Minion Pro

Early April - deadlines approaching

By April 1st, you must have a draft of your review copy and layout posted to the blog.

You should be gathering TARGET AUDIENCE FEEDBACK TOO.

Your work on the poster should be ongoing.
Don't forget that the final deadline for all 3 parts is Thursday April 7th!

Title and credits

You need to begin thinking about these now, as most of you are now editing.


Remember that you have choices - Tilte and credit on black screen or superimposed over the actual film. Look at existing short films that you have already conducted Textual analysis on and research different approaches. BLOG these and obviously, USE SCREENGRABS. In particular identify those ideas that you like and try to make connections between these and your own work.

Don't forget you need to design your production company LOGO aswell - this should appear both on your film credits and on the film poster.

Ancillary deadline one "Film Poster" - Sunday 6th March

For this deadline you will need to have posted the following :-

1. Each individual of group to upload an initial poster design. Try to develop this as much as you can - pay attenntion to the conventions and layout!

2. Justify/discuss your decisions about the design. You should be considering how it connects with the target audience, what it tells us about the narrative and clearly indicate genre. In terms of any characters, you need to be thinking about the representation.

3. Individuals can also post independent research on posters. Aswell as JUNO and BRIGHTON ROCK, I would like to see original research - choose atleast 2 other film posters for independnet, low budget, similar genre (to your short film) film.

Don't forget to consider format - use screengrabs and subtitles and bullet points - it would be helpful to me and yourselves, if you strutured your analysis around the 4 key areas of narrative, genre, audience and representation.

Use the checklist below to remind yourself of what could be included on your poster