2. My main goal was to produce a short film, that was
approximately five minutes long.
After creating a short film, I was then required to
complete my ancillary task, which was to create a film
poster and a review relating back to the short film that
I had produced.

3. The main aim of my ancillary task was to be able to
promote our product in many different ways, both
visually in my poster and verbally in my review. I tried
my best to ensure that our viewers would long to watch
more of our production based on the impression that
my ancillary task had given them about our film. I
decided to represent our film in the most positive way
possible, not solely to promote, but to produce a
strong connection between my ancillary task and the
film itself.

4. My film review successfully provides our viewers with an
incite as to what they can expect from our film. With the
saying “Nawab tracks emotional journeys of high school
memories”, this exaggerates the emotional content of our
film, and ultimately gives off the impression to our viewers
to expect lots of emotional journeys/memories. As a
result, this may intrigue our viewers to want to know more
about what takes place in our short film, so therefore this
will make them want to watch it. On my review, Olivia’s face
really stands out to the readers, which will ultimately catch
their eye when they see this review. “Ready for the future” is
the tagline that I decided to use on my review. I came to the
conclusion that placing it directly underneath the title of
our film would be a good idea seeing as both the tagline and
the film title relate to leaving high school/moving on from
high school. Moreover, I am certain that ‘Ready for the
future’ is a strong tagline which will draw readers in due to
the fact that it makes the readers propose questions such as
“What is going to happen in the future?” “Is something
special/out of the ordinary going to happen?”.

5. My poster positively and strongly encapsulates the drama comedy
genre of our film due to the use of lots of different colours, fonts,
and small doodle images. The character positioning in the three
photos that I have used successfully represent different memories
that our main character has been through during her school life,
these being the following:
-Top left picture: Main character smiling, represents happy
memories
-Bottom picture: Main character after being bullied, with ‘LOSER’
written on her forehead
- Top right picture: Main character writing all of her memories on
a wall
These pictures also tell our audience that the school life/sixth
form life of our main character was not just happy or sad, it was a
mixture, which has enabled her to have so many memories of
high school/sixth form.
The fact that my background is lined paper indicates to our
audience that our film is going to be somewhat light-hearted, and
not serious. Moreover, this relates to our film title (Goodbye High
School) as lined paper is often associated with school, and this
also portrays the idea to our viewers that our film will be set
around a school environment.

6. For my ancillary task, I decided only to include images
that solely consisted of the main character alone. I
thought that this would successfully incorporate the idea
that Olivia was a lonely person, and did not have much of
a social life at school/sixth form. Moreover, I thought that
only using images of Olivia would make it clear to our
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viewers that our film is only about one person’s
school/sixth form life, and that there are no other main
characters in our short film. I did not choose to include
the second main character (Peter) who is Olivia’s
boyfriend due to the fact that he only appears in one
scene, which consists of him informing Olivia that he is
gay. Another reason as to why I opted to not include
pictures of Peter in my review and poster was because I
wanted Peter’s appearance to remain a secret, and I Used in review
certainly did not wish to ruin the narrative. I am
convinced that this was an effective thing to do as it
enabled our audience to view my poster and review
without knowing too much about the plot and characters.
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7. The lined paper background on
the left was utilised for my poster.
I decided that it would be a good
idea to use this background due
to the fact that lined paper
connotes school, and our film is
based on school memories.
I decided to use the picture of our
main character, Olivia, on the
right seeing as I was convinced
that this picture would stand out
to the readers, and would
immediately catch their attention
and therefore would make them
want to read my review. I also
believed that the facial expression
that Olivia has in the picture
would give our viewers somewhat
of an idea as to whether our film
would be a happy, or sad film.

8. These four fonts that I utilised on my poster were all
generated by an online font generator. I opted to use these
four fonts on my poster for many reasons, but there is one
main reason as to why these fonts were utilised on my
poster; this reason being that they all looked handwritten,
and somewhat like a high school student’s handwriting. I
thought that this would be good due to the fact that our
film is about high school, and that these types of fonts
would not look weird with the background of my poster.
Another reason as to why I used these three fonts on my
poster is because I wanted our audience to be able to have a
reasonable idea of what was going to occur in our film, and
whether it was going to be a happy short film or a
depressing, sadistic short film.
I opted to use this font for the film title of our short
film; this font was also generated by an online font
generator. I decided to use this font as the film title of
our short film on my poster due to the fact that it is
big, bold, and really catches your eye when you first
look at it. Moreover, this font stood out more, and was
bigger than the other fonts that I used on my poster,
which is exactly what I longed for the film title to do.

9. For the film title and tag line on my review, I came to
the conclusion that using HelveticaNeue as the font
would be a good idea for many reasons. The main
reason as to why I thought it would be a good idea to
use this particular font was because it blended in well
with all of the other fonts that I had used on my
review, and it was also a smooth looking, professional,
eye catching font; however at the same time it was still
elegant and simple.
As for this side box of text, I decided to use Arial as
the font due to the fact that it is a simple font, but
really catches your eye if it is in bold, just like it is
in this side box of text. Moreover, I wanted this side
box of text to capture my readers’ eyes because it
gives them an incite into some of the things that
occur during our short film.

10. I decided to use NewsGothicMT
as the font for the box to the left
on my review. The main reason
why I decided to use this font is
because it is easy to read, and is
very smooth looking, and is also
elegant and professional.
Another reason as to why I used
this font on my review is because
I wanted it to give the readers the
idea that our film is a simple
film, whose main character is
also a simple, normal, average
woman. However, if I had used
fancy fonts, this would have As for the main text in my article, I decided
given the readers a completely to utilise the font called Modern No.20. The
different idea. main reason as to why I opted to use this
font was because it replicates the kinds of
fonts that are used in film
reviews/newspapers. As a result, I believed
that this would make my review look very
professional, and well constructed.

11. These are the two web links provided at the bottom of my poster. The main
reason as to why I decided to include these two links on my poster was so our
viewers would be able to visit the web pages, like them, and post any
feedback/comments relating to the short film.