Preliminary Photoshop Ancillary

Professional Poster

The purpose of an advert of a film in a magazine is to promote the film and the actor, most magazine adverts will have a large picture of the actor. In this case its Daniel Craig featuring in Quantum of Solace.

It is also common to advertise other films, but these films are usually smaller and they have the bigger film taking up the front cover.

The magazine cover tries to cram as much information onto it and likes to get the consumers interest with exclusive interviews and exclusive content such as posters etc.

We chose this cover as an example as we want over cover to look similar as we will have our main actor taking up the majority if the page

Typical conventions of film posters

From many of the posters I have seen both professional and student there seem to be similar conventions for them all.

• The largest text is usually the title of the film. Standing out so that the audience will be attracted to not only the poster but the title first.
• The main character is usually in the centre and the main image on the poster this is supposed to allow the audience to recognise straight away who the main character in the film will be.
• Posters also usually have the names of the actors in the film as well as who directed it and the name of the company that produced and financed the film.
• There also tends to be some sort of slogan that usually relates to the film sometimes like the film poster above there is a fact that says a bit either about the director or main actor.
• Other examples are below:

Student Ancillary

"Unbalanced" Film Poster Analysis

The film poster features: the release date of the short film, the institution that is making the film, the actors and the title of the film.

The film poster is dark which hints to the audience that the film can have a scary genre such as Horror or Gore. This is a common convention of a film poster. This is because the poster wants to give as much information about a film without revealing its narrative. The poster is in black and white as well. Black and white gives a quite subdued look to the character.

The character on the poster looks rather unkept. The character has greasy looking hair and is unshaven. This can means that the characters class may be low/working class.

The Avengers film analysis

The Avengers Poster Analysis

These posters are made to promote the film. This Poster is typical for an action film as the CGI in the background suggest its going to be a CGI heavy film and a lot of fighting.

The poster has the main protagonist on the front which is typical of an action film, the film is based on these heroes so they want to promote these heroes as much as they can.

The text is very professional and custom made, it is designed to fit the background and the genre.
"The" is cleverly edited into the A of "Avengers"

Student analysis of a student film

The Omega Film Poster Analysis

This poster has many conventions of a typical horror/theory. It has dark colours with bright red text suggesting blood or death. The dark colours suggest its not a happy film and the way the hand is laid out, it looks like the person is dead.

The slogan under the film suggest its a horror, as it includes hell and by "The End" this mostly likely means death. The text look like blood splattered onto the poster.

Overall this poster looks very professional, as it includes the dates, the actors and the text is very relevant. 

Ancillary task research

• This persons ancillary task of a magazine cover has them directly in the centre. The reason to why she's probably in the centre is because she is the main character of the film.
• The largest text on the magazine is the title which is expected. The title is also No.1 Films which the person is trying to link with their film being rather good.
• To attract an audience the person has decided to put a box circle with "WIN" in large capital letters. By doing this the person hopes that a potential audience will be attracted to the prospect of being able to win a trip to Florida.
• The background of this magazine cover being brown with a bit of yellow allows the other parts of the cover to stand out more such as the supposed main character and the interview section of the cover.