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Showing posts with label Ancillaries. Show all posts
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Saturday, 6 May 2017

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Wednesday, 15 March 2017

Ancillary task 2 - Double page spread magazine article

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This is my current double page spread magazine article of my short film 'Paradox'. I have chosen to go with a dark background that attracts the viewers to the rich quality photographs of the two characters I have used for the main images of my article. These two characters are facing each other which illustrates rivalry and tension between them, this intrigues the viewers and makes them want to watch it more. I have also inserted many critic ratings, awards and reviews (due to my audience feedback) as well as my own initial thoughts.


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Monday, 13 March 2017

Ancillary task 1 - Short Film Poster

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This is my final film poster for myself and my partners short film 'Paradox' which is another meaning for the term 'The Escapist'. After many experiments with several photographs from photo shoots and image croppings , I decided to include the main masked villain as it draws the most attention due to the daunting gas mask being the main focus. Also , I chose to include  a swirl like pattern on a black background which cuts away to a scenic view of the other main villain 'Igor' entering the Mercedes vehicle on top of a multi Storie car park. Finally I have added the typical text applicants that you would obviously find on a poster which include the main actor credits, the film title, main film distributor, release date and some sort of 3D or max advertisements to attract more attention.

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Friday, 10 March 2017

Ancillary tasks analysis

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To gain some knowledge and experience into film posters, I have decided to research and analyse existing film posters on their certain features that make them successful to the genre they fit into (action adventure.) The first example a well known Batman : The Dark Knight poster that has many conventions of an action/adventure film poster that I would like to adhere into my own. The overall presentation of this poster is excellent with a nice layout of colours, text and signifiers that the audience can relate to.


The next example is of a double pager magazine film spread "The Avengers" which is a film that I like a lot. Despite this articles layout  is not exactly what I want my article to look like , I still like the features included in this piece including the quality image and the different fonts and statistic bars that engage the viewers into reading the article. I think this article looks very professional and definitely is an iconic piece of media work.

  I will now start making my two ancillaries now I have some good ideas which I have taken inspiration from the Avengers magazine article and the Dark Knight film poster.
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Sunday, 5 March 2017

Ancillary task inspirations

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The press presentation that I have made below shows the research that I have made that is required for myself to successfully create my ancillary products for my media productions. Different posters and magazine articles are shown in the Proxy I have made. I have chosen existing products that appeal to me and which I would like to take inspiration from for my own ancillary products.




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Friday, 17 February 2017

Photography shoot for ancillary tasks

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For my two ancillary tasks, Robert has agreed to do the same thing to set up a photoshoot with a green screen so we can both take quality photographs of our actors individually for our film poster and double page spread magazine. These posters and magazine pages will help attract the audience to watch out short film. High quality photographs are always used in the majority of action/adventure films just like in 'James Bond', 'Mad Max', 'Harry Potter' and 'Star Wars'. I wish to replicate the conventions of these film posters as they make the subject matter in their posters to be 'the best of quality'.

 Robert and I invited Luke (Zeb) and Morgan (Jack) to attend out photoshoot we had set up in the dark room at out school, with their costumes on so we could take photographs of them in different positions/angles. The green screen propped up behind the actors gave us the advantage of easily removing the background out when it came to editing on Adobe Photoshop.



Robert and I took it in turns to take certain photographs of our two actors. We both had different shots we wanted to take for our ancillaries so taking it in turns was a good idea. We based our camera shots/angles on typical action/adventure posters and magazine photographs. These camera shots increased our ideas to create successful and typical posters in the style of action/adventure posters.

Evidence of photographs from raw footage:

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Experimenting on ancillary poster ideas with shots from photoshoot

09:37:00
After Robert and I finished shooting some quality photograph shots of our main characters in front of a green screen, we decided to create some initial poster backgrounds with some of our favourite photos we shot on the day. The following images are some of my initial poster ideas :

       

During the process of editing these posters, I had picked up a lot of new skills including how to crop a single image, create new layers, shade and rub out certain areas as well as being able to use special effects to enhance the photographs I was using.
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