The document provides an analysis of a film student's film project which includes a film, poster, and review. It summarizes that the film deals with themes of dysfunctional family relationships and alcoholism, which are reflected in the poster through the protagonist's distressed facial expression and position. While the poster reflects some of the film's themes, neither the poster nor review fully capture the alcoholism theme. The review attracts audiences interested in the plot and themes, while the poster appeals visually without details.

1. By Paige Parker

2. Film Review
Film Poster

3. Two principle themes within my film are dysfunctional
relationships in a family context and alcoholism. Alcoholism
is a clear theme within the film and is shown by the mothers
indulgent drinking at an early time of the day. This however
is not a clear theme within either of my ancillary tasks. Both
of the ancillary tasks have a clear focus on dysfunctional
relationships in a family context. This can be seen in the
review by the quote used “Children are like wet cement.
Whatever falls on them makes an impression” and the
image chosen which is similar to the image used in the film
poster. These both show the main character of the film on
his own looking anything but happy. The combination of the
three is used in what I believe to be a successful way as all
three outline the main themes and issues within the film.

4. I think that although both of my ancillary tasks show
the main themes and issues of the main product I
do not believe that either of them are a clear
reflection of the film. I believe that the poster works
synergistically to present the film while the review
draws attention to the film in a different way to
promote the film but independently neither of the
ancillary tasks are a clear reflection of the main
product. The main reason that I believe this is
because neither of the ancillary tasks show one of
the most prominent themes within my film which is
alcoholism

5. I think that my poster is effective in promoting
my film in some ways. I used an original image
rather then a shot for my film. I chose this
image because I thought that it would intrigue
the audience as to what was happening
within the film and with the main character
and cause them to watch the film. It also
conveys one of the main themes therefore it
will target the correct audience.

6. My poster following the conventions of a typical
social realism poster it uses a close up of the
protagonist, uses naturalistic lighting and
unknown actors. All of the conventions in which
I have used informs my audience of the genre
of my main product. The position and facial
expression of the protagonist informs my
audience of one of the themes of my main
product which is dysfunctional relationships in a
family context.

7. My review informs the audience of
the plot of my main product, one of
the main themes within my main
product, the initial idea behind my
main product and people that took
part in helping make my main
product.

8. My poster reflects the issues in my main product
through the positioning and facial expression of the
protagonist, Joshua Ridley, within the poster. Joshua
is sitting with his back against a door with his hands
on his ears and has a screwed up facial expression.
This implies to the audience that there is something
going on outside the door which Joshua doesn‟t
want to see or hear and due to the young age of
the child and the fact that he is hiding in what
appears to be a bedroom the audience can
deduct that the reason he is in there is because of
something going on within the house which links to
my main theme of dysfunctional relationships in a
family context.

9. I believe that my poster is a fairly clear reflection
of my film, but I believe that it only goes as far
as to clearly reflect the genre and one key
issues within the film. I don‟t think that it does
justice to the other main theme within the film
but there is only so much that you can convey
within a poster without it being over the top and
I believe that the way in which I chose to do my
poster was the best choice as it reflects two of
the most important themes within my main
product

10. The review attracts an audience by revealing plot
and themes within the film therefore attracting an
audience which are fans of things that happen
within the plot or the themes within the film the way
in which the poster attracts an audience is
completely visual there is no specific information just
the things that the poster suggests therefore the
audience the poster attracts is an audience who is
able to recognise a poster following the conventions
of social realism or an audience that feels that they
would like the film as they are interested to know
what will happen.

11. I believe that the review is not in any way biased.
Throughout the majority of the review there is no
direction for the article it is neither positive nor
negative just simply recalls parts of the story and
my rationale behind the initial idea of the story. The
only directional piece of this article is the last
sentence which says „We are shown the
deteriorating situation of Alfie‟s home life in a
successful and dramatic way.‟ This is the only part
of the review which could be seen as biased and I
believe that this could have a positive impact on
the audience as the magazine is a well known film
magazine. Therefore a positive review from the
magazine could influence a fan to watch the film.

12. Rather then to guess the answer of this question
and try to answer it myself I decided to post the
picture on a popular social networking site and
seeing what people thought.

14. From the comments from people on
Facebok I can see that people develop the
preconceptions that the film is either about
child abuse/neglect or a horror film. The
majority of people who have comment have
the right idea of what the film could be
about as it does touch on child
abuse/neglect.