Evaluation: Ancillary Tasks

Ancillary Task 1:

Firstly, I have not necessarily followed the main conventions of this film poster. I have subverted them to a certain extent, and have developed on some of their ideas.
 I have placed the names of the characters on top of the film poster, just like the poster to the right. From my research, this seemed to be a typical convention of most film posters.
 Moreover, I have also followed many ideas  from the credit block, for example using the 'coming soon' and the bottom.  I have included a lot of white space in my poster, as I had issues with having a black background due to the colours used in credit block and the typeface. I chose to use an image from my original film in hope that it would create synergy, I am aware that this is not a typical convention of film posters, but I feel it worked well. I have also used the route of the eye rule, which most film posters follow. The title is the first thing that is recognised, followed by the picture and then the credit block. By following this convention I hope that my film poster will reflect any typical posters in the film industry.

Ancillary Task 2:

For the second ancillary task, I followed many conventions of the typical magazine reviews. I analysed a number of texts and reviews that had been included in film magazine, so that I understood  the language used in these types of media. I took my 'new films' title of the page from the an existing review from a top magazine, as I wanted to follow the typical conventions of magazines, to make mine seem as professional as possible. I also noticed that all of the reviews I researched had synopsis section, which summarised the film. They also had an overall verdict of the film, including a star rating, and basic details about the production. I subverted the convention of this review, by adding more smaller images from my film, this is because included a wider spread of text across the page, including a directors interview, so it would be impractical to include a large image dominating half of the double page spread. To make it look like a magazine, I included page numbers and the name of the magazine on the footer of the page, just like the magazine I analysed and many others that I researched.