Ancillary Research

Poster Codes & Conventions (Sharonjit):

• The purpose of the movie poster is to persuade the audience to go and watch the film
• Normally have a picture and text
• Large text has movie title and actors name
• Other text name of characters, directors, release date, tag lines Posters are outside cinema screening, websites, newspapers, magazines
• Romantic comedy posters tend to have 7 common layouts. 

7 Different Romantic Comedy Layouts (Sharonjit):

Layout 1: The characters tend to be back to back. For example:

 Layout 2: Three floaty faces. For example

 Layout 3: The characters sometimes sit on something, like a bench or sofa. For example:

Layout 4: Romantic comedy posters sometimes have extreme close ups of the characters.

Layout 5: Sometimes Romantic comedies have collages. For example

 

 

 

                                                                                   

Layout 6: Another common layout that romantic comedies often have is the 'Pick me up pose'

Layout 7: The main characters 'lean' on each other

 

 

Poster Analysis

 Sharonjit


I annotated this poster because it was an action movie poster, and according to my quesstionaire, the make audience liked a bit of action and a sexy,women protagonist.





































This film interested me the most because it follows the typical romantic comedy because the couple are both in love but they do not realise because of their class backgrounds however the maid son helps them get together.

The Proposal - Poster Textual Analysis Shaana

Twilight Breaking Dawn - Poster Textual Analysis Shaana 

Twilight Breaking Dawn - Poster Textual Analysis Shaana

 Poster Codes and Conventions (including how they will be challenged): Shaana

-  Each film poster will have a main image and a title; the title often relates to the image.

- There are usually more then one image on a film poster, it gives the audience more clues about the film which interests them more and makes them want to watch it.

- There are always credits; these credits give the names of the director of the film, it gives praise to the main characters and any production companies which have had anything to do with the film.

- The colours used are bold are clear so it takes the audience away from the picture.

Website Analysis 

 Our Family Wedding- Website Analysis Shaana

                Website Codes and Conventions (including how they will be challenged): Shaana

• Website usually have a main image which shows the main protagonists and/or the villain alongside to create a mystery.
• There is a icon bar which helps viewers to indicate where they want to visit on the webpage. 
• The film title is usually big and bold for the viewer to easily see.
• All webpages and posters usually have a colour scheme they follow so that it looks effective.
• Webpages usually advertise merchandise which is a example of convergence. 

Website Codes & Conventions (Sharonjit):

This is the first page on the website and it impressed me because it outlines the structure of the whole website. The structure is simple with an Hawaiian theme implying

http://www.slideshare.net/GeoGriff94/websites-codes-and-conventions

Skills: Ancillary Tasks - Shaana

Indessign:

When planning my ancillary tasks I was unaware of which software to use. I was in two minds whether or not to use in design or Photoshop; both software’s are very well known.

So I started to research into both software’s, firstly I had started off by watching tutorials on how to use in design on YouTube. It was simple as I could pause and rewind anything i was unsure of and they were very clear when demonstrating how to you each tools.

Photoshop:

Similarly to in design I also researched into using Photoshop; I watched a few YouTube tutorials 

These tutorials also showed me how to use different tools, and also showed me a few techniques which I found quite interesting and would like to apply them to my work.

After experimenting using both software’s we were more comfortable using Photoshop. Photoshop had allowed us to create an effective and professional look. By adding different layers were able to have an image as a background faded and another two images on top. We were able to move around certain things such as the title until we were satisfied with where it was positioned.

Dreameweaver and WIX.COM

For our ancillary task we have to design a webpage. We researched into both software’s so we knew which to use to construct our website.

We came to the conclusion that Dreamweaver was more original. However we came across many difficulties, we watched a few Youtube tutorials and received help from our teacher however we thought that WIX.com was better suited for us to use.

 

Sharonjit

This tutorial of Photoshop helped me develop skills on cropping out the background of a picture. This specific video helped me learn how to save a selection of a picture using a 'Lasso tool.' Usually when I use photoshop, I always manage to deselect a picture that I have tried to crop, which does waste a lot of time

The dreamweaver tutorial helped me get an idea of how to set up a page and use the HTML codes. However I found that the tutorials were a bit longwinded, as it took to long to get to the main points of how to use dreamweaver. For example it took to long to explain how to do hyperlinks to different pages and how to change the backgrounds and etc.