My main goal was to produce a short film, that was approximately five minutes long.

After creating a short film, I was then required to complete my ancillary task, which was to create a film poster and a review relating back to the short film that I had produced.

The main aim of my ancillary task was to be able to promote our product in many different ways, both visually in my poster and verbally in my review. I tried my best to ensure that our viewers would long to watch more of our production based on the impression that my ancillary task had given them about our film. I decided to represent our film in the most positive way possible, not solely to promote, but to produce a strong connection between my ancillary task and the film itself.

My film review successfully provides our viewers with an incite as to what they can expect from our film. With the saying “Nawab tracks emotional journeys of high school memories”, this exaggerates the emotional content of our film, and ultimately gives off the impression to our viewers to expect lots of emotional journeys/memories. As a result, this may intrigue our viewers to want to know more about what takes place in our short film, so therefore this will make them want to watch it. On my review, Olivia’s face really stands out to the readers, which will ultimately catch their eye when they see this review. “Ready for the future” is the tagline that I decided to use on my review. I came to the conclusion that placing it directly underneath the title of our film would be a good idea seeing as both the tagline and the film title relate to leaving high school/moving on from high school. Moreover, I am certain that ‘Ready for the future’ is a strong tagline which will draw readers in due to the fact that it makes the readers propose questions such as “What is going to happen in the future?” “Is something special/out of the ordinary going to happen?”.

My poster positively and strongly encapsulates the drama comedy genre of our film due to the use of lots of different colours, fonts, and small doodle images. The character positioning in the three photos that I have used successfully represent different memories that our main character has been through during her school life, these being the following:

-Top left picture: Main character smiling, represents happy memories-Bottom picture: Main character after being bullied, with ‘LOSER’ written on her forehead- Top right picture: Main character writing all of her memories on a wall

These pictures also tell our audience that the school life/sixth form life of our main character was not just happy or sad, it was a mixture, which has enabled her to have so many memories of high school/sixth form.

The fact that my background is lined paper indicates to our audience that our film is going to be somewhat light-hearted, and not serious. Moreover, this relates to our film title (Goodbye High School) as lined paper is often associated with school, and this also portrays the idea to our viewers that our film will be set around a school environment.

For my ancillary task, I decided only to include images that solely consisted of the main character alone. I thought that this would successfully incorporate the idea that Olivia was a lonely person, and did not have much of a social life at school/sixth form. Moreover, I thought that only using images of Olivia would make it clear to our viewers that our film is only about one person’s school/sixth form life, and that there are no other main characters in our short film. I did not choose to include the second main character (Peter) who is Olivia’s boyfriend due to the fact that he only appears in one scene, which consists of him informing Olivia that he is gay. Another reason as to why I opted to not include pictures of Peter in my review and poster was because I wanted Peter’s appearance to remain a secret, and I certainly did not wish to ruin the narrative. I am convinced that this was an effective thing to do as it enabled our audience to view my poster and review without knowing too much about the plot and characters.

Used in poster and review

Used in review

Used in review

The lined paper background on the left was utilised for my poster. I decided that it would be a good idea to use this background due to the fact that lined paper connotes school, and our film is based on school memories.

I decided to use the picture of our main character, Olivia, on the right seeing as I was convinced that this picture would stand out to the readers, and would immediately catch their attention and therefore would make them want to read my review. I also believed that the facial expression that Olivia has in the picture would give our viewers somewhat of an idea as to whether our film would be a happy, or sad film.

These four fonts that I utilised on my poster were all generated by an online font generator. I opted to use these four fonts on my poster for many reasons, but there is one main reason as to why these fonts were utilised on my poster; this reason being that they all looked handwritten, and somewhat like a high school student’s handwriting. I thought that this would be good due to the fact that our film is about high school, and that these types of fonts would not look weird with the background of my poster. Another reason as to why I used these three fonts on my poster is because I wanted our audience to be able to have a reasonable idea of what was going to occur in our film, and whether it was going to be a happy short film or a depressing, sadistic short film.

I opted to use this font for the film title of our short film; this font was also generated by an online font generator. I decided to use this font as the film title of our short film on my poster due to the fact that it is big, bold, and really catches your eye when you first look at it. Moreover, this font stood out more, and was bigger than the other fonts that I used on my poster, which is exactly what I longed for the film title to do.

For the film title and tag line on my review, I came to the conclusion that using HelveticaNeue as the font would be a good idea for many reasons. The main reason as to why I thought it would be a good idea to use this particular font was because it blended in well with all of the other fonts that I had used on my review, and it was also a smooth looking, professional, eye catching font; however at the same time it was still elegant and simple.

As for this side box of text, I decided to use Arial as the font due to the fact that it is a simple font, but really catches your eye if it is in bold, just like it is in this side box of text. Moreover, I wanted this side box of text to capture my readers’ eyes because it gives them an incite into some of the things that occur during our short film.

I decided to use NewsGothicMTas the font for the box to the left on my review. The main reason why I decided to use this font is because it is easy to read, and is very smooth looking, and is also elegant and professional. Another reason as to why I used this font on my review is because I wanted it to give the readers the idea that our film is a simple film, whose main character is also a simple, normal, average woman. However, if I had used fancy fonts, this would have given the readers a completely different idea.

As for the main text in my article, I decided to utilise the font called Modern No.20. The main reason as to why I opted to use this font was because it replicates the kinds of fonts that are used in film reviews/newspapers. As a result, I believed that this would make my review look very professional, and well constructed.

These are the two web links provided at the bottom of my poster. The main reason as to why I decided to include these two links on my poster was so our viewers would be able to visit the web pages, like them, and post any feedback/comments relating to the short film.