Evalua&on Ques&on 2
How effec&ve is the combina&on of
your main product and ancillary texts?
My Poster
From my poster, there is a use of simplis&c, dark ligh&ng which is conven&ons of the genre, social realism. The loca&on seen in my image also shows seDngs to the genre by its natural seDngs. You can see it is in a standard house which has been worn in, you can see that in the door with the wheelchair
scratches against the door.
We understand that the style of the poster follows conven&ons of social realism because of the basic font and simplis&c style of the wri&ng. The font is a basic colour and shows a similar colour paleGe to the poster. By the use of the small print at the boGom shows conven&ons of any type of movie poster.
Simplis&c, natural ligh&ng is used all throughout my film. This is a strong conven&on to the genre, social realism. I have used natural loca&ons and seDngs in my film as well. I have used the loca&on of a house and showing the situa&on and damages which are happening in the
house.
In the image you can see the different ability between the two characters. You can see the main theme and issue of
disability as the boy is physically disabled.
The poster is represen&ng the two protagonists, Jonathon and Darcy. You can tell there is a rela&onship between the two by the close proxemics of them both. A key theme
shown in the poster and is also men&oned in the magazine review is imprisonment vs freedom. The wheelchair
represents an anchor and pulls Jonathon’s life down. He feels imprisoned as he must rely on others. Darcy represents the freedom as she is more able than Jonathon. By the mise-‐en-‐scene of costume is used, by her wearing heels you can
tell she is going out.
My Poster
The poster is linking strongly to the film by the struggle you see in Jonathon’s character and that he relies on Darcy for many things. It is shown in the film when Jonathon struggles to do stuff by himself. On the right, Jonathon is struggling to pull himself into his wheelchair. Darcy helps dress Jonathon and
push wheelchair as it was too difficult to do when he pushes it himself.
My Poster My poster reflects the style of my film by the micro
technical elements. The technical element on mise-‐en-‐scene is used strongly in the poster. By the colour
paleGe of my poster, it shows you that my film has a serious tone to it and that problems will occur during
the film.
By the set design, you can tell that it is a low economic house and that there is stress within the house. With the washed out dirty floors and scratched doors, the family have not got a good financial situa&on to
decorate the house at a higher quality.
The similar colour paleGe is used throughout the film. This shows the audience the serious tone to
the film.
In the screenshots shown to the leW, you can see the dirty rooms and the damaged rooms. This
links to the poster.
The poster informs my audience about my film by showing the two main protagonists and gives an insight to their situa&on as you can see the difference with the
two.
My poster also have quota&ons from film cri&cs about the film. One of the quotes men&on that it is an
emo&onal journey through the girl’s eyes. This tells my audience how the story has an impact from the girl’s story and also that there is a problem what she has to
overcome and face. This informs my audience a large part of the film.
My Poster
Film footage
My Poster
The poster promotes the film by the film cri&cs responses and ra&ng to the film. This shows the
audience a strong opinion of someone high in the film industry. This judgment persuades the audience
whether the film is worth watching.
It is also shown on the poster that the film is currently up for an award and has won an award. This shows my audience that the film is at an high enough quality to compete against other films in large film awards and
fes&vals.
If the audience want to know more about the film and more opinions. There is a full review wriGen on it. It goes in depth with the style, filming and edi&ng and performances of the film.
The preconcep&ons the poster develops to viewers is the rela&onship between the characters being shown on the poster and also the
situa&on of them.
Preconcep&ons are good for the audience as it builds up tension for them. This gives them something to look
forward to when preparing to watch the film.
My Poster
My Main Task
Both of my ancillary tasks are here to represent the themes and issues of the film. They both are there to lure the
audience into the film.
The magazine review gives a more detailed, professional cri&c of the film. It shows personal and impersonal modes and feelings about the film. The magazine review is used for the audience to have more of an understanding of the film.
The poster is an image to lure the audience into the film. The image is there to connote representa&ons of themes and issues which will occur in the film. This will give the
audience preconcep&ons of the film and what will happen. This differs from the magazine review as there is much
more detail.
My Main Task
The magazine review goes in depth with the meaning behind the narra&ve and different representa&ons seen
throughout the film. The image of the boy used in the magazine review links well to the poster. It shows the boy in a
dark room, siDng alone in his wheelchair. The wheelchair represents an anchor weighing him down. As he is
not as able as others.
In the poster, you can see an image of the boy and a girl. You can easily iden&fy the representa&on of the difference of the two. This leads to many preconcep&ons the audience may have. Who is she?
What is there rela&onship? Why is he in a wheelchair?
The image also connotes that they boy is weak, as some one else is there helping him. The poster builds up tension of the narra&ve and makes the audience have
preconcep&ons of the film.
The themes which are strong evident in both media products is disability and freedom vs imprisonment. The ar&cle goes in depth
with the themes and issues and cri&cises the film in depth. The poster en&ces the audience into the film by its image.
FILM FOOTAGE
My Main Task
My ancillary tasks have a large impact on my main product as it is all used as adver&sement for the film. The products are there to lure the audience to the film and make them want to see it. The media products combine together.
The products work well together by the representa&ons seen in them. The use of low-‐key ligh&ng and damage house is shown in the images. Also see one of the key themes of disability.
My Main Task
In the magazine review, the writer talks about how the
director is portray the themes and issues and also how
performances are given by the actors. Giving a taster to the
audience to what they are going to see.
The poster can relate to the film by the posi&oning of the
characters. The distance of the characters show a strong
posi&oning showing there is some form of tension between
them.
My ancillary tasks both represent my film by the clear understanding of themes and issues portray
through illustra&on and text.
My Main Task
The posi&oning of the images in the magazine review connote a hierarchy. The girl is looking over
the boy and is the most powerful in the rela&onship. This is a hidden message to the
readers of the ar&cle as can not be seen clearly to the eye.
The composi&on of the people in the poster shows a close rela&onship but a tension. This
reveals to the audience that there is a situa&on between the two. This is use to unpack the film to the audience without
realising. In the film, the characters have a loving, caring rela&onship but there is a large
sense of tension within the film.
My Magazine Review
My review has a small synopsis in the leW hand corner of the review. Showing us a brief, simple show of events of the film. This informs the reader the beginning, middle and end and shows the problems
what occur in the film.
This gives the audience a clear, structured understanding of the film and the
narra&ve of the film. The audience can read the synopsis to gain a brief
understanding of the film. If wan&ng to know more about the film and a cri&c on the film, the reader can read the ar&cle
wriGen from a film cri&c.
My Magazine Review
The film review aGracts an audience in a different way than the poster does. The film review gives more of an insight into the film as it gives a professional, film cri&c opinion to the reader and lets it
know the nega&ve and posi&ves of the film.
The poster lures the audience in by the image and leaves them ques&oning themselves about the film. By the selected quota&ons used and the ra&ngs, this gives them only one brief opinion about the film. The poster gives them preconcep&ons of the film. This
builds tension for the audience. The film review goes more in depth and analysis the full narra&ve and situa&ons. The review also gives a cri&c on performances and the produc&on. This gives the audience
more of an understanding to what to expect.
My Magazine Review
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a young age of eighteen and studied drama within her A Levels. In Matthews’ first feature Loveless, she focuses on using untrained actors and says it can help a performance become more natural. The films have several connections to each other. Matthews uses to the location of the Croydon borough through her films to depict ‘real’ life and show the problems what contains in the small gritty environment. Rising actor, Myles Egan is seen playing Jonathon Williams. He is recently an upcoming actor and has appeared in recent short Addiction (2014) by Grace Sheridan. Egan has won Best Upcoming Actor at Edinburgh Film Festival.
The protagonist Darcy Williams is seen as a broken, weak woman. Struggling to care for brother Jonathon and live a normal young woman live. The vulnerability is shown within the closeness of shots and movement of the character and her feelings unfold during throughout the short. The isolation portrayed with Egan’s character by the want to able to go out and be free from the wheelchair but feels stuck. The wheelchair represents a heavy weight to
“It is not alone the fact that have women generally had to spend most of their strength in caring for others that has handicapped them in individual effort; but also that they have almost universally had to care wholly for themselves” Anna Garlin Spencer words show the struggle for women who care for other which is also seen in Georgia Matthews social realism short film. Disability shows us the difficulties and responsibilities for families caring for someone who is handicapped.
We become introduced instantly to character Darcy Williams, a young, lively woman who cares for younger brother Jonathon Williams, who is physically handicapped. They live alone in a lower class house on a cul-de-sac in South East London. There are difficulties and implications about their lives. The desire for Darcy to be a young woman and live her life with the pressure, stress and responsibilities she has for Jonathon. The themes of imprisonment vs freedom is clearly identified within this short. It is portrayed through both characters. They are trapped in worlds which are such problems occur in writer-director Matthews other material such as her feature film Loveless (2013). The similar style within the films and settings.
In the social realism screenplay we get a captivating performances by Amiee Leatherby who plays Darcy Williams, the main protagonist portrayed throughout. Amiee is only
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Jonathon and shows the blandness of his life. The colour palette of the film shows the emotion and stress in the situation. The tension builds up inside the awkward, broken relationship. Matthews depicts the life of a young carer and strongly shows the struggle and emotion to that. Audience may see Leatherby’s character as selfish by leaving the distress brother behind. The emotions could have been shown more delicately as Matthews representation is not as strong as she wanted to perceive it.
The turning point is when you see Darcy dramatically exits the house after the confrontation a sudden change reoccurs in her travel. Our story becomes surrounded in mayhem when Darcy takes her mood swings out on mysterious man, Robbie and storms off. A moment of change happens when a older woman and disabled boy are strolling down the road. The woman is deeply caring for the boy, Darcy’s character realises the relationship between them and that the boy has much more difficulties than Jonathon. A moral message is being perceived in the significant moment of the relationship. Showing not to take the things you have for granted. Darcy takes a view of the situation and returns to the house.
The siblings leave the house together symbolising the relationship between them and how they have pushed the problems away. The film has room to progress and improve. It has much potential in the current short film industry. The vivid image of the trapped place they are in and have a repetitive life. It uses a very good location to represent the present time. Many minors through the film but overall a large achievement.
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Films
In the magazine review, there are posi&ve and nega&ve points to give the
review a fair opinion.
In the lower highlighted sec&ons of the magazine review, you can see the
writer explaining about the use of the micro technical elements of camera
and mise-‐en-‐scene. The writer explains that the use of the technical elements give much meaning to the story and show the audience the representa&on
of the director.
In the another highlighted sec&on, the writer says how the director did not get the right message across as she
wanted to as they are not represented as strong enough as they could be.
If the magazine review was biased, it would give an unfair opinion to the readers. If the audience go to watch
the film based on the review and it lets them down, this can cause the
audience opinions to turn against the film and give it bad publicity.
My Magazine Review The magazine review is at a similar level to an industrial format. The review given is a fair piece of cri&que which reveals to the audience and pulls the film apart.
The review reveals specific things in the ar&cle so the audience have an understanding of the film and who it is aimed at.
The genre is men&oned in the third paragraph. This is to establish the audience and reel them in. Social realism is a genre which tends to be watched from higher educa&on students and onwards. Teens and younger would not enjoy the film as it is very bland and dull.
The opening paragraph is a quote from Anna Garlin Spencer. This quote is to link into themes and issues of the film. The
literature used in the review is at a higher academic level and would not be suitable
for young teens. This clearly shows the different audience it is aimed at.
The heading for the film review
establishes the cer&ficate of the film.
This is used to evidently show the audience who the
film was suitable for.
My Magazine Review My film review breaks down the themes and issues which are seen to be the centre of the film. The cri&c explores them and unpacks the representa&on seen throughout the film.
In the first paragraph, a quote is used to link to the main problem of the film. It is seen about a women caring from someone else. The first issue is shown which is disability. This takes you straight into the film.
In the opening of the second paragraph, it
takes you more in-‐depth with the characters and the background of them. In the paragraph it shows the loca&on of the film
and explains the class of them.
Mid-‐way through the second paragraph, it goes into detailed of the emo&ons and feelings of the characters with the situa&on they are in. The review makes a clear point that a key theme of imprisonment vs. freedom is shown in the short. It then links back to previous work from the director.
The third paragraph goes into more issues of vulnerability and
isola&on. The paragraph goes more in-‐dept with how the
the technical elements and conno&ng more
issues and representa&ons. This
is the writer unpacking the film
and geDng more in-‐depth. It is evident in the lower part of the text that there is a broken rela&onship
within the two characters.
My Magazine Review The images in the review also link to each other. At the top, centre of
the review – there is an image of young actor Amiee Leatherby looking down. At the boGom, leW there is an image of vulnerable
character Myles Egan.
The images are posi&oned like this to show a ‘hierarchy’ of power. The boGom, right image is of vulnerable character Jonathon played by Myles Egan. The image is of him in his wheelchair. He relies on his
carer Darcy, shown in the top image. The images represent the rela&onship between them.
In the film, there is many shots showing a strong proxemics of the characters and there rela&onship. In the shot on the leW, you see the
separa&on between them. This is used by the line in between blocking them apart. In the shot on the right, the hierarchy has
changed over. Darcy is now the weak and vulnerable one.
In the boGom two shots, you can see Jonathon relying on Darcy as she pushes his wheelchair.