Designing the review page

In the past week or so I have been designing the magazine page for the incorporation of the review content. Originally, the first draft design (shown below) was A4 and portrait shaped. We had the essential content but needed to add a few more things like the page number, the film details and the overall rating:

I soon realised that to incorporate the large volume of text, we would need to change page size details, I decided to use a landscape setup, which meant we would still have the same design but it would mean more room and space to incorporate key content:

Then (we were fussy!), I enlarged this space because we still had more text left with little room to include it. Yesterday, our Media lesson was one of measurements, in which we checked the sizing of an actual Empire magazine review page. The sizing was 43.6 x 28.5cm in size, which was roughly the size of two A4 sheets side by side, with a few adjustments:

 So this is effectively our final design. I am just adding the final touches - page number, rating etc - and then our magazine review will be ready.