Task Three: How Effective Is The Combination Of My Main Product and Ancillary Texts

This is our film poster. When creating it, we wanted to stick to the common conventions of film posters we had researched. The initial purpose of a film poster is to attract the audience. it is designed to intrigue and tell enough of the story to make people interested and want to see more. When designing the poster, I went with idea of not using a colour. I wanted the poster to be in black and white to create a sort of sombre mood, conveying to the audience what the atmosphere of the film is. The fact that you do not see the protagonist's face make it all that more interesting. This reflects the genre of the film which is Social Relaism. The poster, gives that edgy, gritty feel that is common of many SR films. Our target audience are teens, so it was an obvious choice to put a teenager on the front. This again, all relates to the genre of our film.

Our review is effective in telling our audience what the film is about while not completely revealing the story, Our film review is more likely to appear in a BFI type film magazine. It would be appealing to lover of indie films, and of course, out target audience, teenagers. 

The black and white theme was carried on from the poster to the film review, I wanted to link it to the poster and again, give it a slightly dark feel, which relates to the theme of our film. I also used an image from the film that is very similar to the poster, not showing Marcus' face. In the shot from the film in the review, we wanted to show iconography of SR films by having our main character surrounded by urban-looking area.

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Movie Poster

This is a screen grab of our Poster, created using photoshop.

Filming

Here are some shots from our groups filming process.

Film Poster Concept

This is my idea for my groups film poster. I decided to put a mid-shot of the main character, played by Marcus on our poster as he is our protagonist and so therefore the audience will then get a small idea of what the film is about. As Marcus is a young person, our target audience (males and females between the ages of 16-24), will take an interest.

I decided to put Marcus' face half in shadow to give the character a touch of mystery, and to show that he is alone and separated from the rest of society. I represented him as a stereotypical youth by putting him in a 'hoodie'. This is to express the fact that, at first glance, he can appear to be like a normal teenager. This is also done so our target audience can easily relate to the character. I incorporated actual lines from the film to show that there is more to the character than the initial impression. Also, it We feel that makes the audience curious wand want to see our film.

We have decided that the title of our film will be 'I am...', and our tag line is 'Am I lost in a trance, or am I lost in a daze...'.

We feel that the title reflects the inner turmoil of our main character who is struggling to express himself in his life. He is trying to find out exactly who he is. The tag line again is dialogue from the actual film, which reiterates the fact that he is trapped. I placed the tag line at the bottom so it is the last thing read. This means that it will stick in the minds of our audience.

Animatic

I am the person who has been in charge of producing the animatic for our film.


I took pictures of the story board and uploaded each one to iMovie in order to create a mock-up of what our final film will look like. I put each image on the timeline. We plan to add music and voice to our film, in order to give us a clearer idea of how each shot will look, sound, and how long our movie will be. This will help us make any necessary changes now.