Eval Question 2

How effective is the combination of your main product and ancillary tasks?

(this is only the script for my question 2 answer but i wanted to get it right before actually recording it so any comments would help)

Although my video does seem slightly amateurish in certain aspects, it does, in my opinion, look like a film that would be shown at a film festival or possibly in a smallish time slot on TV. It seems to me that it would most likely be shown as a short before a similar film in the cinema.

I made my poster look as professional as possible by taking my time on it and focusing on each detail of it before moving onto the next. I looked at other film posters to find the conventions they held and then tried to incorporate them where appropriate. I used a similar method when making my magazine review. I looked at what conventions seemed to be present in most magazine reviews then found ways to use them in my own, giving it a professional looks. I probably could have improved my magazine review by writing more for the actual review. Although it isn’t marked on the actual content of the review itself, the relatively small amount of text appears less than would be expected form a real review, making it seem less like a real review and more like a piece of work. To improve my poster, I could probably have spent more time working on the film title. This is the part I spent the least amount of time on and it shows in the quality. I spelt out the title then did it again using smaller letters in red, before placing them above the first set. The end result looks unprofessional and slightly cartoonish, giving completely wrong signals about the film.

There is a difference between the poster and the film that makes them, to an extent, appear to be unrelated. Despite my film being in colour, I made the poster entirely black and white aside from the title. However I did this as I intended the black and white to symbolise the lifelessness of the world the film takes place in. so even though there is a difference between them that separates them, there is a link between them. The magazine review is even less related to the film. Magazine reviews tend be follow a visuals style similar to the magazine itself, rather than the film it reviewing. Therefore, the only real link between them is that the review is about the film.

I used the lack of colour on the film poster to symbolise the lack of life within the world of the film. However I used the red colour for the main title on the poster to connote the danger and threat the characters face trying to survive. The location and pacing of the film also gives the impression that my film is a thriller.