HOW EFFECTIVE IS THE COMBINATION OF YOUR MAIN PRODUCT AND ANCILLARY TEXTS?

Natasha Ano

MAIN PRODUCT

Our main product is a short social realist film focused on gang culture/peer pressure

ANCILLARY TASKS

Our ancillary task was to create a film poster and film review for our main product – short film.

PLANNING ANCILLARY TASKS

In order to get an effective main product we done a significant amount of research and we applied these methods of research in order to develop our ancillary products.

We went about this by analysing different film posters/ film reviews to see what layouts were used and how we could replicate something of the same quality.

WHAT WE FOUND – FILM POSTER When looking at film posters of similar genres to ours, we found that they

were all simple and had at least one character in the shot– this would always be the main character. We looked at the film posters of Fish Tank and Bullet Boy. Both the posters have the main characters in the shot and are both looking to the side.

Other conventions we found were that They had film star ratings and awards – typically British A quote from a critic praising the film Directors/editors etc credits at the bottom in a movie font Logos of companies involved in the production/ distribution of the film A BBFC Film rating

FILM POSTER

“OUTSTANDING PERFORMANCE”

GHS TIMES

“AMAZING PORTRAYL OF TEENAGE PRESSURES”

THE BASE

Star ratings

Names of our main characters

Catchy slogan that correlates with our film and title

Scenery is incorporated into the silhouette of a ‘hoodie’ thus indicating the chosen genre of film and issues and themes that may be raised

Credits to production team – this is usually seen in film posters , which is why we included it to make our product similar to an already existing one

WHAT WE FOUND – FILM REVIEW

The main conventions that we found when looking at film reviews were –

Action shots from the film Title of the film Writing in columns

FILM REVIEW Action shots

Review in columns

Title of film

HOW THE THREE PRODUCTS LINK Both main and ancillary tasks are aimed at our target

audience, the focus has not been diverted we have carefully considered what elements of each product would attract our audience.

It reflects back on the original purpose of our production. All three products have an extremely strong relationship as

without one, they each would be useless. The film poster is designed to publicize the film. The audience then go to see the film. The film review then gives a judgment on the film, either discouraging or encouraging more people to go and watch it. Not including one of these factors, the others would not have the same affect. For example; without a film review, the audience is left only to there own analysis of the film poster as an encouragement to watch the film. This leaves the risk of the audience misinterpreting it. There would be no genuine motivation for an audience to go and see the film because they have s lack of detail on the film to act as a driving force