Ancillary Task 1 - Inspiration

The first ancillary task we have decided to do is the magazine advert. We felt the best way to reach our target audience would be by placing a full sized advert on a single page, as this would be easily seen and would catch the reader's attention effectively.

We decided to make this piece of work purely on Photoshop, because we felt we had the necessary Photoshop skills required in order to produce the high quality material that we are looking for.

It was difficult to find direct inspiration for this piece of work because although our documentary is a spoof, it is also about quite a serious character and this did not match any of the examples we looked at while researching different documentaries. However, there are three good examples that we found and we will be using these films' posters as inspiration for our own promotional film poster/magazine ad.

  

Ancillary Tasks

As our work was a documentary, our task was to produce two sets of print work:

- a newspaper advertisement for 'Alexander Curtis: The Official Documentary'

and

- a double-page spread magazine article about 'Alexander Curtis: The Official Documentary'.

We will be doing these pieces of work mostly on Adobe Photoshop, however we will be using Microsoft Publisher in order to make our work, in particular the double-page spread, look more professional.