Avneet Gill A2 Media : EVALUATION

How effective is the combination of your main products and ancillary texts?

- When making my short film & ancillary tasks I ensured that they were both in a position to be visually interpreted by consumers. In my main task, I did this by using many captions (or Anchorage) to 'fix' or allow consumers to understand the text from the producers point of view. In addition to this I focused on the auditory aspects of my short film. I used a wide range of both diegetic and non-diegetic sound throughout my film; which included songs such as 'Lazy Song' by Bruno Mars to the natural laughter of my starring talent.
- I created my film poster using a combination of both of my starring actors faces in a single photo. I knew from the start that due to the context of my short film documentary (using a maximum number of 2 characters only), that I was going to portray both protagonist characters in both of my ancillary tasks. I decided that I wanted to collaborate my talents' faces in a single photo not only so that less physical space was taken up on the ancillary tasks, but also so that consumers could easily recognise the film and so that my two characters were established almost immediately.
- In my opinion my short film makes it rather clear that the two characters being featured are female students - therefore an audience could make the assumption that my TA is youthful females. With this in mind, I decided that in order for any consumer to be able to relate to my text, I needed to approach their specific demands|requirements to be satisfied. Therefore I purposely remained using a 'feminine' or 'girly' theme throughout my ancillary tasks too. This included using colours that are typically associated with girls, such as pastel colours like Pink and White. However due to the realistic chosen topic of discussion (cultural identity) I decided to keep my poster and film review slightly sophisticated - to do this I used a plain black background, Serif fonts, as well as a close up shot conveying the naturalistic side to my teenagers.