Ancillary Task Inspiration

By Paige Hadaway

• This PowerPoint informs you of my intentions and inspirations for two ancillary tasks , being a magazine Front cover and Film poster advertisement. My inspiration for my film poster was from a similar film genre film , called Brotherhood , I used the poster to analyze to ensure I knew what to include to make it look professional and good quality. For my inspiration for my magazine front cover I looked a covers from Empire, a British film review magazine.

Magazine Cover - Created with Adobe In design.

• In regards to my magazine cover I looked at leading film magazines Empire and Total Film , this was of huge help as it allowed me too see what is typically included within film magazine front cover. Personally I do not read film magazines so researching was essential for me to be able to create a professional outcome. I looked at many different covers and analyzed a few in order to find out what was essential to include.

After looking at multiple copies I was able to get a good indictor of the types of fonts I would use , i wanted the magazine cover to give the same mood as my film trailer genre. Regarding the fonts I decided to use a bold san-serif as it gives a much more modern and casual effect which matches my film genre. I also decided to just stick with black and white writing as it helps to stand out and doesn't make it too colourful which may make it look messy and unprofessional. For the most important words on my magazine front cover I added a special effect such as a drop shadow to allow for it to stand out more . I also added a a black colour around the edges of the Title font to help it stand out and not look so bleak and white. I decided not to include very light and happy colours as this would be misleading to my film genre however I wanted to include a colour in which made it slightly eye-catching; I done so by experimenting with different banner and title colours.

After trying many colours I came to the conclusion that red and grey would be appropriate for the text boxes , this helped any text in front of it to stand out from the background image, it also filled some negative space in the surrounding background of the image as the focus is the figure in the middle of the photo. The Grey boxes helped to contrast with the main background image as the main character is wearing a grey coat.

Film Poster Advertisement- Created on Photoshop

• For my film poster inspiration I decided to look at the Brotherhood and Kidulthood posters which advertises films by Noel Clark , these films are of the social realism genre and includes similar type of storylines as my own . By using this as inspiration and analysing these posters it allowed for me to be sure of what I wanted to include in my own.

I realised as my genre is of a fairly dark origin and looks at illegal lifestyles I would use a dark image to help portray my genre , to make the image appear darker and in low key lighting i added a colour lookup filter from Photoshop in which enhanced areas of the image I needed but also gave a a slightly mysterious feel to my image. When selecting the image to use for the poster i really wanted it to capture the main character and who he is. I took this image myself using a Nikon SLR, I took it using the flash as it was late at night when it was taken. Taking the image at night helps to further add a sense of mystery to the character as well make it look fairly edgy , by including the main characters Dog also gives insight to who the character is. Furthermore taking it with a flash ensured a reflection in the dogs eyes causing them to have slightly demon like effect adding connotations of aggression and the type of owner he is. When taking the image i asked the model to smoke a vaporizer this makes huge amounts of smoke/vapor, this was effective as it helps gives further insight to what the main character is .I decided to add a skull like face-paint to the character in this image as skulls give negative connotations usually representing death and evil , this helps to show that death and evil may be apparent in the movie.