Ancillaries: Audience Feedback

We spent a lesson viewing everyone's ancillary products and giving them feedback on how to improve., here is some of the feedback I got for my two products:


Movie Poster 


Include more information at the bottom of the poster and make the font size smaller
Include social media icons for publicity
Move the 'Blaise Oldham' credit so it can be seen clearer.



Magazine Spread

Correct spelling mistakes
Align the text to form more square columns
Move the title upwards to make more room for body of text

Ancillaries: First Draft Of Film Poster

Ancillaries: First Draft Of Magazine Review

Ancillaries: Creating A Magazine Review

Within the brief, we had to make a 2 page magazine spread reviewing our film.
After looking at many Little White Lies review pages, I started to create my spread. Here are photos showing the progression of this:

 I knew I wanted the pastel blue and grey palette for this piece, however I wasn't so sure on the layout of the magazine.

The main experiments were about positioning of text, making sure it is readable.

I included some conventions of magazine reviews, such as: the use of photos and enlarged quotes.  I think this lead to the article looking quite legitimate.

Ancillaries: Creating A Film Poster

Here are some screenshots showing the progression of creating my film poster.

This was the initial idea I had for the poster, however, it didn't particularly look much like a poster advertising a film, so I changed it.

 I started experimenting with text and re-colouring the photos.



On top of this, I used a dark rock texture for the title to sit on top of.


I also downloaded the font 'steeltongs' for the credits for the film. I then made it narrower and taller.

I wanted to use 2 photos on the poster as it shows two elements of the film, so the audience sees what the film will include.

The top image is a warm, sun-filled photo showing the 3 protagonists relaxing - whereas the bottom image shows them looking more stressed, and is cold, suggesting there may be darker moments in the film.

I believe that by including the convention of long narrow text - I made by poster look somewhat legitimate.

Audience Feedback From First Rough Cut

I showed my rough cut to my class, which consisted of my primary and secondary audience.

The feedback goes as follows:

Good use of locations,
Have a few more handheld/dynamic shots
Try to make some of the sound louder

Creating The Soundtrack For My Film

Here is a video of me creating the soundtrack to one of my scenes. This was a process which involved sitting in front of the film with my guitar and working out what sort of tune fitted and could enhance the feeling of the scene.

After this, I recorded the guitar into Garageband and added in different instruments.

I used the orchestral sounds on the programme to add in cello, double bass, and violins to the tracks.

I felt that this was a good idea as these gave the film a more cinematic feeling, and fitted the uplifting theme.

Ancillaries: Inspiration for Magazine Review

As part of the brief, I have to make a magazine review double page spread and a film poster.

I have been looking at Little White Lies magazine, a film review magazine I have been reading for years, who create stunning articles.

I hope to create an article which makes effective use of text like these spreads, however I will not be able to replicate the illustrations.

Ancillaries: Inspiration For Film Poster

I looked into the film posters of Bertie Gilbert, as his films are of a similar style to mine.
These posters are beautifully coloured and use text very effectively. What I intend to do is use a similar image style these, however use multiple images to make the poster instead of one.