Richard Schickel reviews the horror film The Shining in the June 2, 1980 issue of Time Magazine. The review includes stills from the film showing terrified characters and uses a simple yet professional layout with neatly divided columns framed by thin black lines to focus attention on the text.
Richard Schickel reviews the horror film The Shining in the June 2, 1980 issue of Time Magazine. The review includes stills from the film showing terrified characters and uses a simple yet professional layout with neatly divided columns framed by thin black lines to focus attention on the text.
Richard Schickel reviews the horror film The Shining in the June 2, 1980 issue of Time Magazine. The review includes stills from the film showing terrified characters and uses a simple yet professional layout with neatly divided columns framed by thin black lines to focus attention on the text.
Richard Schickel reviews the horror film The Shining in the June 2, 1980 issue of Time Magazine. The review includes stills from the film showing terrified characters and uses a simple yet professional layout with neatly divided columns framed by thin black lines to focus attention on the text.
Film critic Richard Schickel reviews The Shining in Time
Magazine for their June 2, 1980 issue.
The title Cinema at the top of the page in the middle creates a simple, yet clear indication that this page in the magazine is about films. The font of the title matches the other text used in the review. This therefore connects the whole page and making look professional. A still from the film itself. Perhaps one of the most famous stills from films. This still just highlights to the audience that the film that is being reviewed is a horror film due to the conventions shown very clearly. The terrified look of Wendy whilst the out of focus, blurred axe savagely cuts through the wooden door and Jacks cruel, excited yet a face of a complete psycho peers round. Each column is neatly divided by two thin black lines and is bordered by more black lines. This adds to the simple yet professional look the magazine seem to be going for. It also means that the audiences eyes are focused on text and not on the borders or anything else. Another small still from the film, of the couples son Danny is included. This shows you what the other main character looks like. It also enhances the fact that the film is a horror film, due to Dannys face looking as if he is screaming.