First draft of trailer

Ancilliary Task 2: First draft of poster

Magazine Cover as imagined on the front of a real magazine

I used PhotoFunia to create this image of what my magazine cover would look like on the front of a real magazine, as I did for my other ancillary task, the film poster.

Contact Sheet - Ancillary Task 2 - Poster

For my film poster I decided to take a variety of pictures from different lengths and angles, with Jack doing different poses to give me a range of options. The sunlight on the day was helpful and ensured that the pictures were clear.

Contact Sheet - Ancillary Task 1 - Magazine Cover

In order to create a realistic looking magazine cover I took a variety of shots with Jack performing a number of different poses. I was particularly lucky with the lighting as it was a bright, clear, sunny day which meant that Jack's face was not too shrouded by shadow and therefore the images can be used with a different background on the magazine cover. 

Soundtrack Choice

The soundtrack is an especially important feature of a trailer as it helps to capture the tone of the film that is being advertised and also serves as a way of attracting the audience's attention. Furthermore, it can add weight to quotes and soundbites from the film as well as action scenes.


For my trailer, I chose the music from the trailer for the 2014 video game Middle Earth: Shadow of Mordor (Tenth Dimension - My Strife, My Fight, My Fear) as my soundtrack. I wanted a soundtrack that began fairly calmly and slowly built up to a climax, as my trailer is composed in the same way; the start is mainly dialogue, while the second half is predominantly composed of action sequences. It was also suitable as Shadow of Mordor is similar in genre to my production and in many ways falls into the category of action/adventure, although it is also very fantasy-oriented unlike my trailer.

Development of the Web Case Study

A fellow student and I produced this video as part of our case study on the development of the Web.


We tweeted the video to David Gauntlett, an influential figure in the subject of the Web, and received a response, which is shown in the screenshots below:






















Gauntlett then wrote a blog post in response to us mistakenly labelling him the creator of the word 'prosumer', and his clarification was especially useful to us as we may well have misquoted him again in the future. A screenshot of his blog post is below: