Ancillery Text Research

Poster

For our poster we are going to make we have looked at a range of film posters of which we believe are successful and have picked out points from posters we believe influence us most.

Star Wars: Episode 1
All the star wars posters follow the same general rule where the lead character will be in focus on the front and then secondary characters follow suit towards the back. The main evil character will be in large at the back as well. This part is what influences us most where we think it will be a good idea to have our Main protagonist at the front, and our doner/magic helper will be at the back (the blue man)


The Hangover
This poster follows general codes and conventions too. It contains the movie tag line and will also contain some information on the makers, if they are already made by another movie. It also has the main protagonists in centre frame, which instantly shows the audience that these will be the people they will be following in the film. The Block at the bottom is also what we will be taking example from with the layout of out poster.






Benjamin Button
We like the layout of this poster as well. It has the conventions of a film where two characters have a strong bond/interaction with each other. It is set out so they are side by side, like a couple, and also only half of each face is shown, making it seem like they are two halves and when together, make a whole. This is usually in romantic films, but can also be used in dark thrillers and other type of films. We may carry on this idea as we believe that our Two main protagonists share a strong connection.


Magazine

Looking at a few film magazines such as Empire, Film and Sky Movies we decided that if we were going to write our film review then wed have to have a large double page spread, generally filled with pictures. Also the language will be rather informal, as if talking to the reader as a friend.
The layout of our magazine will bi similar to Empire mainly. A large picture will take up about half the article and the rest will have the review. Side bits such as directors quotes and facts will be dotted over the picture.

Podcast Week 20/11/09

Beginning Audience Feedback

This is the beginning of our film. Bare in mind we plan on adding more titles at the beginning of it, and music has to be played to it.
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Good so far, edited well. Sound needs to be cut out at times and music needs to be put in where it needs to be.

More titles need to be on before credits(Going to be done anyway) And should stick with the theme of the title font. Nice idea of going to have a ticking noise with the title which extends onto the scene

Can clealry see influence from Hot Fuzz and Shaun of the Dead openings.

Screen Play

This is our screenplay for our film
One Step Back Screen

Storyboard

This is our brief storyboard to our film.
One Step Back Storyboard PDF

Podcast Week 13/11/09

This is our podcast of our second week of pre-production.

Ancillery Tasks

As part of our coursework, we have to include two ancillary texts.
For our coursework we have chosen to do:
a poster for the film
and
a film magazine review page featuring the film


Our poster for the film will be mostly done on Adobe Photoshop Elements. It will be similar to our teaser poster, but much more fulfilling as it is a normal poster, not teaser. 
Our Film magazine will be done in Office Publisher as this is great for using graphics alongside text.


More Details to come, watch this space...