Ancillary Task (Research on Website, Magazines and Posters)

I have researched further into movie posters for my ancillary tasks although I did research in the beginning of A2 media. From this research I understood what to include in a movie poster and how attractive and effective it should be to draw attention. A movie poster should give viewers the urge of getting more information about the film, the idea of creating a movie poster is to promote the film and inform viewers of the new film.
A movie poster, magazine and website must be able to have all key conventions, I have looked up the key conventions so when it comes to me designing my poster, magazine and website I will know what to include.
For example there must be a particular colour scheme used which also matches well with the image, the genre should be seen or hints given through the image, font style etc. For example a romance film, the poster would use a soft colour. To show audience the mood of the poster is calm and happy mood.
Release dates are an important key to add in a poster as it informs audience of when the film would be coming out. The marketing company gives audience a chance to look further into it. The key conventions also lead audience to have questions, visit the website, teaser trailer, imdb.com etc.

Conventions of a film poster:
Film Title
Release Date
Main characters name
Image
Production companies
Pull out quotes/reviews/ratings
I have looked at four movie posters;
Unknown
The adjustment bearau
Fair game
The insatiable moon


Research into ancillary task – poster
I have benefited from this research. As I got to understanding about how effective they are and how they create meaning and the cohesiveness they involve.






Magazine
I have researched on empire magazine, and labelled each key convention. I will analyse Empire covers more closely to find out what conventions has been used on each cover and how empire has created effective magazines. Below is my Empire cover analysis,






Websites
These are the following conventions you would see in a typical movie website: