POST #15 - ANCILLARY TASK PRACTICAL

TIME FOR AN ANCILLARY TAAAAAAAAAAAAAAASK

So, an ancillary product; what is it? It's essentially a product of something that isn't the main product in itself. Like, an ancillary product for a film would be it's poster or soundtrack. And coincidentally, this practice task is about a film poster. Who would've guessed.

 So, Wendy and I were given a poster for a film, and we were told to recreate that poster. It was for the film "her", directed by Spike Jonze.
Her2013Poster.jpg


 This poster. (The trailer makes the film seem super weird. Like, he falls in love with Siri, but she sounds like Scarlett Johansson?)

 So, there were a few rules and regulations for this task.
  1. We were NOT allowed to be in the photo
  2. It had to be done within the 2 hour double lesson
  3. Try to be as accurate as possible
So off we went. Going to find a person seemed easy at first. Just go out to the common room, find a person we knew, take a picture, done. But there were a lot of new Year 12s, who we knew none of. It was scary. So we had to go around the Sixth Form a bit further than we usually would, going to the quiet study area, different smaller areas, etc. 

 Eventually, we went upstairs and found James Vardigans, and we used his as our model. We directed the way the picture would be took, and we snapped about 15 pictures. We settled on this one as the photo to edit:

I was the one who took up editing the photo, so off I went a-workin'. I used Paint Tool Sai first, using it to fill in the background and the suit, making both different shades of red. I couldn't add text within Sai, so I exported what I had and moved onto Photoshop.

In Photoshop, I had 3 aspects that I had to add in regarding text; the title of the film, the subtitle of the director, and the cast at the top. The font we used was fairly accurate to the original's, although I did have to manually move some letters around for the title. In the original, the three letters of "her" are physically connected, and since the font didn't offer that, I did it myself.

 The cast list was made to be a bit more fun, having fake names replacing the actors. While James still has his name there, I also added:
- Terry Foldyflaps
- Draven
- Chessup Teeks
- Noob-Noob

 The final step, adding the Spike Jonze subtitle, was easy enough. Just add the text underneath the title of the film, then that's it. Poster done.


It was a fairly easy poster to recreate, given that it IS only a

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