Style Conventions of Little White Lies

Little White Lies has a standard language form, paragraph content and language conventions for their reviews. This mainly consists numerically along the paragraphs and could vary due to different authors opinions on the film.

• The opening paragraph usually comments on the contexts for the film, whether historical, literary or directors previous works.
• A summary information of the protagonist or other main focuses of the movie, potentially commenting on their traits, their representation, key aspects and evaluation of the actors performance.
• Key themes, issues and a basic narrative of the plot.
• Narrative devices used.
• Use and adaptation of genre conventions (e.g. Steve Neale's theory of repetition and variation)
• Reviewers opinion on the film.
• Summary sentence which overall comments on the whole film.

Language conventions of the magazine consist of complex vocabulary and many restricted film codes in language, which specifies more the LWL's target audience.

commonly used language devices such as nouns, complex nouns, metaphors, adverbs and adjectives are used to catch the readers attention, with devices such as puns to create humour in the article and rhetorical questions to let the audience review the film and possibly more complex issues as whole.

The style of writing uses many restricted codes, which leaves the target audience to be more specific to people who are interested and know about the specific theories or previous films mentioned. For example in the Zero Dark Thirty film review published in LWL, the author comments on previous characters from the directors preceding films, which means the audience would of had to see the previous films to understand the reference.