Friday 18 February 2011
How effective is the combination of your main product and ancillary texts?
As our target audience was film/documentary enthusiasts as well as older people and teenagers; we thought the review would be most suitable for a magazine like Empire. We looked through issues of the magazine, focusing on it's visual style & how they write their reviews. When then tried to emulate these in our own review.
We included both a film synopsis & an end verdict - allowing the audience to gain a basic knowledge of what the documentary is about & providing a condensed opinion on it. It then gives them the option to read on in more detail.
We decided to use a bright, colourful screenshot from our film. The mise-en-scene within the shot is incredibly relatable to the teen audience, with posters of bands & a computer being visible. The bright image also diverts away from the dark subject matter.
The image of the two men holding hands instantly highlights that the film is about homosexuality. It dominates the page, showing the audience that it's the main focus of the documentary.
The juxtaposition of the grey scale image and the rainbow represent the conflicting views of gay people within everyday life. The happy, positive representations presented by the media, and the harsh reality of the way gay people are treated within schools. Similarly, the rainbow is a prominent form of LGBT iconography - which is used to represent the diversity within the LGBT community. This allows the subject matter within the documentary and what is being explored to be known to the audience. It also represents the narrative of the film, as it switches from a bleak tone to a cheerier tone throughout.
We went on YouTube & learnt how to create a rainbow effect as it was proving difficult to cut around a photograph of a rainbow.
The use of the "Inked God" typography gives an edgy tone to the poster, representing the dark, more gritty content within the documentary. Additionally, this coincides with the grey scale photograph which already creates a gloomy effect.
We included both a film synopsis & an end verdict - allowing the audience to gain a basic knowledge of what the documentary is about & providing a condensed opinion on it. It then gives them the option to read on in more detail.
We decided to use a bright, colourful screenshot from our film. The mise-en-scene within the shot is incredibly relatable to the teen audience, with posters of bands & a computer being visible. The bright image also diverts away from the dark subject matter.
The image of the two men holding hands instantly highlights that the film is about homosexuality. It dominates the page, showing the audience that it's the main focus of the documentary.
The juxtaposition of the grey scale image and the rainbow represent the conflicting views of gay people within everyday life. The happy, positive representations presented by the media, and the harsh reality of the way gay people are treated within schools. Similarly, the rainbow is a prominent form of LGBT iconography - which is used to represent the diversity within the LGBT community. This allows the subject matter within the documentary and what is being explored to be known to the audience. It also represents the narrative of the film, as it switches from a bleak tone to a cheerier tone throughout.
We went on YouTube & learnt how to create a rainbow effect as it was proving difficult to cut around a photograph of a rainbow.
The use of the "Inked God" typography gives an edgy tone to the poster, representing the dark, more gritty content within the documentary. Additionally, this coincides with the grey scale photograph which already creates a gloomy effect.
Monday 14 February 2011
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