This document contains research and planning by a student named Feargus Bracken for a poster promoting their film project. It discusses potential themes for the poster including conflict, obsession, and breakup. It also outlines ideas for graphic techniques like using a gun sight effect, blurring edges, and adding hashtags to synergize with social media. The conclusion states that photos will need to be taken and editing techniques researched to manipulate the photos for the poster which will be designed in Adobe Photoshop.

1. OCR Media Studies – A2 Level
Unit G324: Advanced Portfolio
Mind Map and
Research
Name: Feargus Bracken
Candidate Number: 4009
Center Name: St. Andrew’s Catholic School
Center Number: 64135
Generation of Ideas for Ancillary Product 2) –
Poster

2. Research
Name: Feargus Bracken
Candidate Number: 4009
Center Name: St. Andrew’s Catholic School
Center Number: 64135
• Theme Ideas
• Conflict – Between S+J and M
• Obsession – Focus on S from M’s point of view
• Breakup – Can be either gentle perspective or from perspective of Maximillian which
would affect what graphic techniques used in the theme
• Tagline (Slogan to help “hook” the audience in) – What language will you include? Why?
Where will it be positioned?
• Aim for possible play on words to generate interest
• Use of punctuation to create suspense, question marks, ellipses etc.
• ‘Gunning for Her…’ Blocky font, very visible over background. To the side of the image
(Could potentially be gunning for him, connoting jealousy/aggression)
• Aggressive language
• Font – Harsh, edgy with stark colour scheme.

3. • Manipulation of shot to seem as if subject of photo is in the crosshairs of a weapon
• Manipulation to dim/darken the edge of the photo.
• Manipulation of photo to create artificial tunnel vision/blur effect. Would cause the
viewer to focused entirely on the firearm and James
• Manipulated with reticule to be over Shannon or inbetween Shannon and James.
Connotes ambiguity of target, creates interest.
• Borders of poster are black, or have small bits of information to make a sinister
impression. Green on black for smaller text.
• Synergy with Social Media – Synergise with a # in lower corners of image. Synergising
with social media creates free advertisement and hype. The more traffic that social
media generates, the more interest there is. Case in point, frequently used # are
recommended to users.
• Synergy with your magazine – Use of hashtags and various different aspects of social
media, such as icons with the names of pages. Or a collection of logos and all accounts
with one name. Creates streamlined platform for easier access to potential audience
• Point of Call information – Date, time of showing and possible tagline. Emphasis on
Logo. If the logo is easily recognisable.
Name: Feargus Bracken
Candidate Number: 4009
Center Name: St. Andrew’s Catholic School
Center Number: 64135
Research

4. Research- Conclusion
Name: Feargus Bracken
Candidate Number: 4009
Center Name: St. Andrew’s Catholic School
Center Number: 64135
• I will need to take the photos that I will need to use, which will be done easier when
filming of the trailer begins. I will also need to research further editing techniques to add
to quality of the manipulation of the photos taken.
• I can search for suitable fonts on the internet with websites like dafont. The props used
within the photo shoots that I would organise are similar to those I am allocated to bring
on the prop list. My photo shoot either after filming of the trailer, as the models will be
able to assume character with ease.
• Adobe Photoshop CS5 will be used to edit all images created, and the poster will be
created with Photoshop, as I will be able to use the skills learned on my previous course
and from tutorials available online.