Evaluation (Question 2)

My first and second subsidiary tasks combine well to join both as good adverts for my documentary. I felt both tasks having the same style and feel would group them together and advertise the documentary as a pair rather than two separate things. Unfortunately  the documentary itself was very hard to try and join with the other two tasks, this was mainly because the documentary didn’t have any sort of tittle sequence to apply the typefaces and colour scheme too. The fonts I used on the video had to be different to the ones used on the other tasks as they didn’t show up on the moving background I wanted to use.  I don’t think the documentary linking with the subsidiary tasks was that much of a necessity for the projects success as a whole, this was simply because the advert and the double page spread where to advertise for the documentary so they needed to be an obvious pair unlike the documentary which should have been able to work on its own as a final piece of media.

The subsidiary tasks are full of similarities, such as the use of the same typefaces and colour schemes. Using the same typeface for the tittles on both tasks keeps the same general look and style of design to both tasks and links them clearly to the documentary. The colour scheme also adds to this as it makes sure that the tittles and images keep the same feel to them throughout both advertising tools. The general layouts are the same for both tasks as well, I tried to be just as bold and striking with the layout of the advert and the double page spread, this wasn’t especially to make the two link but too make sure that the main information stood out on the pages. This was especially easy on the advert as the general conventions of an advert are to make it stand out and be eye catching, however most magazine spreads don’t place as much emphasis on making the tittles a large part of the page.

There are quite a few main differences between my tasks and then again especially with the documentary.  The differences between the advert and the double page spread are mostly with the way the two pages have to be set out as they are different genres of media product. The advert for example has to be simple with a bold background image that shows a little bit of the subject of the documentary, this is why the tittles are very bold and there isn’t that much other information on the page at all. The double page spread on the other hand is more about the information and therefore needed to be a bit more structured and calm so that the entire article was easy to read and understand. As for the documentary compared to the subsidiary tasks there are a lot of differences as they are completely different forms and styles.

The main shared elements of all three tasks are the imagery used in all of them. As I was filming all of the clips to create the documentary I was also taking some photographs purposefully to use on the advert and the double page spread, this was very useful when it came to creating the subsidiary tasks as I already had all of the images I needed to really make my advert and double page spread stand out.