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  

!"#"$%&Director: Georgia Matthews

With Amiee Leatherby, Myles

Egan, Jay Davies

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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.