Evaluatiuon question 2 - How effective is the combination of your ancillary production tasks with the main production?

Ancillery task 1 - poster:

Here is my poster for my first ancillary task. As you can see it features many of the normal conventions, I will list the conventions I have used top to bottom, explain why I have used them and compare them to what was used on the Donnie Darko film poster.


Actors Names.
At the top of the poster I have featured 3 of the actors names that were involved in the making of the film. If a movie contains actors that are considered very famous they will put names of the actors at the top to promote the film and make people who are fans of the actors want to see it. Sometimes actors names are put at the bottom and sometimes they are put on both bottom and top, but I decided to put them on the top as it leaves room for other typical conventions that use the bottom, and because they placed them there on a Donnie Darko movie poster which is of a similar genre to ours.


'Tagline'/Quote.
I used a quote from the movie that creates enigma and draws the audience in, this will give them almost a preview of the film and get them interested in seeing it. A couple of Donnie Darko posters used a quote from the movie that read 'Why are you wearing that stupid man suit' which again creates enigma and makes the audience more interested. I used a surreal, creepy sounding tagline that helped to cement the genre in the minds of the viewer of the poster, with the film genre being a chilling surreal film.


Central image.
I used a central image depicting 2 silhouettes of the main antagonists in our film. The image is creepy and fits the chilling surreal genre. I also added a blue tint and darkened the image to emphasise the creepiness even more, this effect was also created with the Donnie Darko poster shown, with a bright area of central focus, and very dark surroundings. I opted for the dark central focus and slightly lighter blue surroundings as I wanted the main subjects to seem creepy and sinister.


Main title.
I positioned the main title about two thirds of the way down the poster so that the central focus was visible. I think this also would have worked if the title was over the subjects faces as it would create even more enigma. I used a simple black typewriter font on a white background, that matches the opening and ending credits of our short film. I did this rather than opting for the typical blurred/strange font of surreal films as I would like to make the typewriter almost a recurring house style throughout the production, due to its ties with Chillers, Horrors and Dark Noir films.


Movie information/Footer.
I again listed the names of actors/directors/production workers at the bottom, following typical conventions, so that the potential audience can view information on the film. This allows them to look up directors or the production company maybe and see what else they have been involved In, then decide whether or not they would like to view the short film. I again coloured this blue to fit in with the house style, and followed what the Donnie Darko poster did. Finally I added final details by placing a 'PG13'

Ancillery task 2 - radio trailer:

We also made vocal notes over our radio trailer explaining use of techniques and conventions.

Evaluation Question 1 - How did you use conventions of real media texts in your production?

Evaluation question 4 - How did you use digital technology in your production work?

This is a presentation highlighting the different types of hardware and software that aided the production of my short film.

Final film

Here is our final film, fully edited and completed. We hope you enjoy.

Evaluation question 3 - What have you learnt from audience feedback?

We previewed our film to our media class and handed out a questionnaire for them to fill out about the film. we asked them to suggest improvements and tell us good points about the film. Overall this method gave us a very good insight into what we have done well and what we could do better next time.


All together we received around 15 questionnaires, but here are a varied few that we have chose to represent good changes that could be made to our film to improve the overall quality.

We made a video in response to the feedback that highlights popular suggestions and shows us saying how we would tackle them along with crediting ourselves on good points.



Overall i think that the film would actually benefit from a voiceover, which was considered in the early ages but never followed through with. This would give more of an insight into the characters feelings and show the confusion that he is feeling as currently the audience is very confused up until the closing scene of the film.

Ancillery task 2 - Radio Trailer

Movie Soundtrack

This is the final song in our movie named, aptly named nausea, it is disorientating and psychadelic. It almost sounds like The Pixies' song 'Where is my mind' that plays at the ed of fight club and adds a sort of calm closure to the build up of the narrative and the solving of the enigma.