Evaluation Part 2 (Poster)

How Effective is the Combination of Your Main Product and Ancillary Texts? This is the final poster that I have created as part of the ancillary task for the A2 media coursework. My idea for the poster was to take the photograph of the funeral scene of myself and Olly stood holding hands with him in his suit and me in my black dress. I then used a photo of the wedding scene with Lewis and myself holding hands with him in his suit and me in my cream dress. I then merged the two images together so my black dress and cream dress became one and the two images look like they are intentionally taken as one photo. I blurred the edge of Olly to keep with the theme that his character of Jack has died and that through the final part of the film he is a ghost. I decided to keep the majority of my poster white (white space) so it didn't get 'too busy' and so the viewers attention was directed to the main protagonist's and the title, tagline etc. Overall I am happy with how my poster has turned out, however the one point I would like to change, if I could, is how the colouring of my neck has turned out so that is blends in more with the colouring of my face and rest of my skin. Planning for my Final Poster: This was the first stage of the merging of the funeral image with the wedding image. Rather than using the images from screen shots from the film, we set up a mini photo shoot to take the photos that I needed to created my poster. We used the backdrop of a white board in theclass room and the blue screen that meant it was easier for me to remove the background as there wasn't lot of background clutter to remove.

This next image is the first look of what the two

photos merged together would look like. After this I had the process of merging the skin shades of both images and hair

colour as the different lighting in each photo made one image slightly darker than the other. My original idea was to have the wedding photo with me happy and the funeral side with me looking upset. However, after many attempts on photoshop to put the two images together with two different emotions, I realised it would be easier, and would also look better, if I just had the emotion of me being happy.

My poster compares to mainstream and specialised examples because it sticks to the conventions of a mainstream poster with the use of white space and with the way i've set the title section out is typical of mainstream posters. It compares to specialised examples because it is simplistic with the poster concealing the narrative.

The information I have chosen to highlight is who the central protagonists are and the mood in which their character is likely to set.

Overall I feel that my poster and article have worked well to portray the messages of the film through the use of the simple, yet effective, house style (of black and whites/cream) and by engaging the audience immediately into the feel of the film's narrative and genre.