5.1 Ancillary Task

To go along side our final piece, it was our task to design annd creat two ancillary tasks, we chose to create the magazine cover and poster, this was because as a group designing these two were going to be the easiest for us as none of us had any experience with creating a website, therefore we wanted to use the skills and knowledge we had to create the higest possible standard of poster and magazine cover. Also, we knew because both were advertising methods, they could be rather similar.

Above is a picture of our poster, as you can see we have included our main protagonist as well as one of the locations we had filmed in, this was so people could look at the poster and maybe get a feel for what our trailer was going to be about, we also obvioulsy included the title within our poster as well as when it was going to be in cinemas and the rating our film had been given, along the top is a slogan that we thought up between ourselves that we thought went well with the feel of our film ,that people would maybe associate with our film. We believe that all the relevant and neccassary information has been included within the poster.

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Above is our second ancillary task, the magazine cover, this we found a little more difficult than the poster, however with guidance from looking at various film magazines we decided to start planning, we wanted to go for a more darker feel than the poster hense the black background. The top half of the magazine cover was easier to do than the bottom half, we found it difficult to position things on the bottom as our photo of the main character took up a lot of room, but we didn't want to make it small so that it wasn't noticed. We felt that our magazine differed from other film magazines because there wasn't much information about other films on the front cover. However we still believe we acheived a good magazine cover.

Out of the two, I prefer the poster as I believe it is the better of the two ancillary tasks and shows our final piece in more detail than the magazine cover.

Similarly to our final piece, both ancillary tasks were shown to the class, which we then received feedback on to make a few adjustments. We were told to take a few things out of the poster that didn't need to be there. After taking them out we see that it was definately for the better as our final poster isn't as cluttered but still has the relevant information. Our magazine cover wasn't given that much criticism, however we were told we needed to re-position things at the bottom end of the page as there was to much going on and you didn't know what to look at but apart from that it was a good final piece. All the changes were made and the final ancillary tasks are what you can see above.