Final Cut

Ancillary Task 1

Using Adobe Indesign Emma created this elegant magazine layout show casing our short film documentary. I think the over all style and appearance successfully reflects the tone of the documentary and compliments/promotes it without trying too hard. Her inspiration came from analysing articles from Little White Lies and Marvel Magazines. This overlayed image really reflects Davids identity, showing a close up of him looking into the camera overlayed with him sitting in his spot waiting for this person he met in his dream. The dreamy confusing atmosphere sums it up well. Emma tried to make the text as engaging and interesting a possible by starting with a rhetorical question and mentioning relevant issues that are of public interest.

Emma continued to make subtle improvements to the article, giving it a more simple bright finish adjusting the colour palette, making subtle changes to the layout, dates and page numbers, this touch made it clear that its part of an article and made it appear more professional. I think that the soft colour palette works really well as it compliments the image and picks out certain tones while look aesthetically pleasing. Emma also changed the title font as I wanted to give the article a more simple, bright tone.

Ancillary Task 2

We chose this design over our other one as we felt it best reflects our documentary. It is an interesting assembly of images that we hope compels the viewer to look deeper and take their own interpretation; this is also the goal of our film. The colour scheme works well with the blue and orange complimentary colours. They give a contrast of cold and warm, which we feel in some ways reflects the mood of our documentary. We also feel that the way the text is placed does not distract away from the main image. This is important as we want the image to be the most eye-catching element.

 

Absolute Final Design

 

After getting feedback from people looking at the poster Emma realised she needed to make some changes to the text, people thought the text along the bottom had 'too nice' of a tone and needed to be more snappy and sharp, people also suggested we should include the name of the documenter as this is a big part of what makes you want to watch a documentary (thinking Louie Theroux, David Attenborough), when you know and like the documenter you want to watch it which is why in advertising for this sort of documentary the name of the documenter is bold and one of the first things you read and what draws you in. So with these finishing touches, hopefully this is our final design.