AP in Media: Evaluation - In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media product? Part 4

Ancillary tasks -

My main task was to create a trailer; my ancillary tasks were to make a poster for my movie and the front page/cover for my own magazine. I chose these tasks because it related very well with my main task. If there was going to be a new movie coming out, a poster and a cover may be exactly the type of advertising that’s used for any production. In order to do these tasks I needed to get ides of how all of this was achieved. I found that for a horror film, the poster needed to be quite minimal but eye catching all the same. Like most posters, I used one of my main characters (the villain). However after completing the task, I needed to make some changes before I could produce an end result. One of the things I needed to change was the title. I had put it off centre, but later realised that the convention was to have it in the centre, top of the poster. The font of the writing at the bottom also needed changing.

The horror genre of posters and magazine covers were very distinguished from others that I had researched. My magazine for instance, had to be one that was well known for advertising independent films, horrors in particular. After researching many, I decided that by making my own but using the same conventions of a independent mag would target the audience that I wanted to instead of advertising to a broader scale of audience.

With these tasks I was hoping to advertise as well as entertain. My poster was to shown to inform as well, answering the questions, what was it about? When did it come out? Who was in it? Who directed? Etc.
If I had the chance to do it all again, I would have probably looked more into the film industry, using that knowledge to improve my magazine cover, as to how an independent movie would have been shown.