Magazine Review page

For my page I choose to use just one of the characters so the photo isn't too busy. This should also invite the curiosity of the audience by only displaying a single character. Also, through research I have found that the majority of magazine film review pages only show one character from the film.
I experimented with long, medium and close up shots of the character, and also with portrait and landscape. This is the whole photoshoot:

I chose these images as my favourites because the actor is showing the right emotions best in these, also I like the lighting as it creates a mysterious atmosphere. A large amount of most of the photos is sky, and I think this connotes infinity, that there are endless possibilities for the character. It shows that there is something in the distance, something more for them that is much bigger. I also like the photo on the road as it shows that a journey is taking or has taken place. This could all interest a potential audience member.
These are my final choices for the magazine page:

I think this photo best portrays my film:

Edited:

I decreased the exposure and the saturation and increased the contrast slightly, this gives a more dystopian look to the photo.

This is my finished article:

Or you can view it here, in better quality:
http://pub.lucidpress.com/itendedfilmmagazinereviewpage/ 

Final cut of It Ended.

Evaluation of film:

One of the first things that a good film should do it invite curiosity and introduce an enigma for the audience to hold onto so they watch until the end to find out the whole story. I think my film successfully does this by starting the story at the end of a relationship, this makes the audience want to know more about how the characters got to where they are.

This Short film on youtube was one of my main real media influence and inspiration:

It also starts and the end and is not chronological, so that the audience has to piece together the relationship.













There is clear sound in my piece, you can hear what you need to to understand the text. But there is one interruption which I would go back and improve which the dictaphone picked up on and recorded which could be distracting. You can here the page of the script being turned over during the dialogue.
I cut into the footage I got well, although I think there are still a few moments where the pace isn't kept up.
My opening of the film and the closing challenge conventions because I put my title at the end of the film instead of at the start, unlike most short films.
I think I could improve the variety of shots that I use, as | only use mostly medium and close up shots. Although using these shots allows the film to revolve solely around the two character, like there is nothing else going on around them.
At the start I use the sound of a shower in another room as a sound bridge. This could be classed as a foley effect because it is much stronger, clearer and louder than if I were to use a live recording of the shower running in the other room.
I use handheld shots because I wanted to create the sense of the uncertainty that comes after the break up.

Film Magazine Review Page - Real media research