Final film

Final ancillary task

Anicilary poster

Ancilary review

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How Effective is the Combination of Your Main Product and Ancillary Texts?

Our main product and our Ancillary tasks work well together we have had feedback on all aspects from our class, teachers and also other friends. Our main film has worked better than we could have imagined as we were told the humour would be very hard to achieve using the conventions of a documentary. In all the viewings we have sat in on we have received laughs and positive comments. Linking the film with our collection of poster was easy as we used a simple background drawing the audience’s attention to our main character Simon. Using him in multiple funny poses with the vital prop of his oven gloves enabled us to maintain the mise en scene with our film as you are not laughing at his phobia or his problems instead at his beaming smiles or even the ‘serious quotes’ from celebrities. These are all used in a serious way but allow humour as if you take a step back and think of how ridiculous the phobia is then the more serious we make it the funnier it seems. Completing the package is our magazine review again having a piece of serious writing about our piece allows the humour to continue as although the review gives a good detailed analysis of our film it also by talking about it as a serious film again continues our feel of a serious theme about a very humorous topic. The research we did into reviews helped us to realise that pictures were key and our choice of our two pictures were very important. The one we use showing the group of people with social difficulties is subtle but also links into the film by showing one of the funniest parts without giving the reason behind it away therefore enticing a magazine reader to want to watch our film.

All in all I believe our combination of  ancillary tasks and our main film work terrifically and the idea that the film is a mockumentary can be felt throughout all of them. The humour in all three of them is not forced and all the conventions and themes needed for them are there though underlying all of this stays our ridiculous phobia which when made to be serious people have found hilarious.

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Filming

Here is some pictures of us filminmg our short film. also in the pictures is the equipment that we used.

Here is a thew examples of our scripts for our film. we also included images so the actors can get the idea of the mise en scene and can visualise the scene.

Prop production

As a result of simons chirophobia, there are several simple tasks which he would struggle to cope with. One of which, we dicided would be typing. This is the prodder device i have created in order to allow simon to type! The simple and easy to use elastic head band fits comfortably around simons head without causing discomfort. The 10" prodding stick is easy to use nad it's thin design allows it to go almost unnoticed on Simons fore-head.

Production

as a group we came decided to call our selves "hands on production"

This is our production logo that we have decided to create. we have chosen the name "hands on production" because it is very ironic to the film we are producing and it also has a sence of humour to it. The picture of the hand fits the scene and the atmosphere. we have used simple colours black and white as it is bold and stands out, however in the actual film the colours are inverted on the logo, so the black becomes white and the black become white. creating the logo we used adobe photoshop, howver in the film we use adobeo after effects to make the writing slide down the fingers.

review

For the second part of our ancilary task we have decided to do a review. we have looked in to the empire magazine and looked into various layouts of how a reveiw can be layed out.

 

Here are several different reviews from the empirer magazine. some are very similar in the way they are layed out. we have decided to follow the layout of the review below.

Here is out line lay out of how the review is set up and how we are going to layout our review

Video blog

Here is a blog of us explaining what we are goiung to do and how were going about it.

practice

This a practise run of what we hope to include in our film. this is also to help us generate ideas, but also get use to the type of camera shots we would need to pull off the conventions of a documentory.

Animatic

This is the animatic for our short film we have done a voice over on the animatic to explain what is going to happen on each slide and what we are going to do.
when putting the animatic together in adobe premier pro we haven't kept the transitions of the slide the same they are different in each transition this was a learning curve as it doesn't look as professional if we stuck to one type of transition, however it did give us the chance to experiment.

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ancillary task poster

For our ancillary task we have chosen to do a teaser poster and a film review.

The teaser poster, we have decided to be similar to the Borat poster which is below. We like this poster as it is a simple but affective poster, however the advantage to borat doing this poster is that borat has already got a known name from previous television programmes.

we have change our idea of the poster from the borat idea. weve decided to go with a different idea, we have followed the train spotting idea of a poster where there are several individual posters.



       

above are other posters which we looked at, all the posters have similar features as they are all generally a single subject on the poster. this is a feature which we want in our poster.

we have briefly copied the style of the train spotting idea of posters where we have more than one poster.

on all our posters we have quotes from various people we have done this because in many films on their posters or front covers they have comments from well know people or news papers etc.  



Mood Board

We have created a mood board with pictures and words which we felt were relevant to the mockumentary that we are making. we went through several empire magazines and decided which pictures and words were right for the mood of our film. The mood board works off connotation but people interperate things in different ways.In the mood board you can see a picture of a man with glasses we decided to put this picture in our mood board as we thought it represented seeing life through some one elses eyes. we have pictures in our mood baord which represent violence for example the guy with the base ball bat. we have two pictures of the same man one picture with hands grabbing him in a gentle and possibly sexual way, however the other picture contrasts the first picture as it shows violence through thist and even the expressions on the mans face. We also have words such as 'slate' and  'keep cool' we imagined these words to be the type of words that our character would say or think as people judge him on his phobia. In the mood board you will notice lots of pictures of hands and oven gloves which relate to the theme of our film. The hands connotate violence and anger, however the oven gloves connotate safety within our film.

conventions of a documentary

• voice overs


• interview with subject.


• interview with subjects friends and family


• presenter


• clips of subjects life, from a day to day basis


• presenter getting to know subject


• non diagetic sounds


• titles when a new character comes into the film( peoples names, who they are, age, etc)

Main idea

Our main idea is to shoot a short film, which is going to be a mockumentary. A mockumentary includes traits of a documentary such as interviews, voiceovers, etc. Our film will be shot completly serious, but about a rediculous subject. Our subject is about a boy who is scared of hands, and therefore chooses to wear oven gloves to hide is hands. we originally planned that the character would have no hands, but we thought this might be offensive. before chooseing a phobia we searched the internet and came up with lists of phobias on websites and what they are. As a group we decided to go with the phobia of hands which is called chirophobia. one of the webistes we looked at was 
http://users.tinyonline.co.uk/gswithenbank/phobias.htm

our mockumentary will be simon showing the life style he lives and how he lives and copes with life on a day to day basis.
within the mockumentary we would like to include scenes such as:

• following simon round the house, school and possibly local areas in which he goes to. these will involve  mainly tracking shots.
• interviews with simon and close friends and relatives. These will mostly be fixed shot reverse shots.
• Shots of simon coping with tasks around the house

short film and mockumentary research

This is a short film. The central character is called Wayne who seeks revenge after being attacked. It shows his lonely life, and how he is inspired to become batman after his attack to get revenge. The style of the film is like a documentary as you are following  his life, and the change which is happening in his life. There is little dialogue, this is done by a conversation between Wayne and a councillor, which is also used as a voice over as the two speak. The councillor asks questions through out the short film, but Waynes answers are very short and blunt. This shows that Wayne is very much to him self and again alone.

The film uses a lot of close ups on Wayne as he is creating his batman suit at the beginning of film. This shows his concentration and determination to get the costume finished. Also in the shot he is smoking which could suggest anger, and is away to calm himself. Close ups on the machinery in which Wayne is using show the attention to detail. There are also mid shots in this scene. It then goes on to the next scene where there is the councillor and Wayne speaking the shots used in these scenes are shot reverse shot, and over shoulder shots. As the film goes on there are alot of mid range shots showing Wayne living his life, but the lighting is quite dark which reflect Wayne living a dull and boring life.

We also looked into the office which is a very successful mockumentory written and directed by Rick Gervais and Stephen Merchnat. Parts of the programme include characters talking to the camera this creates  communicate and a relationship with the viewers.

louis theroux does documentories on numerous things all around the world. In his documnetories he has all the conventions which we will need to use for our short film. It was also good to watch louie theroux to get an idea for our actor to get an idea on the role he is playing as a presentor.