Both Paddy and I have been very interested in the concept of making a picture, or pictures, a significant part of the layout of our review page. As you can see to the right, the review of the film 'Watchmen' has been dominated by a picture of two main characters within the film. This idea puts greater emphasis on the visual aspect of this film; it's appropriate, being a comic book inspired film. The most popular attraction of the superhero concept, is the visual aspect. It requires less reading, and more watching.
So, now that we have come to the decision that our pictures will chew up a rather large proportion of the page, we just need to take more photos on set and off, and go from there.
The very influential 'star rating' has caught our attention. For the readers who would rather have the review's rating of a given film showed to them in a very simplistic way, it allows for less reading. Plus it adds a little more variety to the layout of the review.
Although, our story isn't entirely mainstream superhero based, we still want the page to have some POW! And so we believe that the best colours to utilise, are your basic blues, reds, greens and yellows. Now these can be incorporated into the review's title, subtitle, picture caption, prose etc. We just want certain aspects of the page to be prominent and so you can expect to see one or two of these colours floating around.
