Evaluation Question 4 - How did I use media technologies in the construction and research, planning and evaluation stages

Evaluation Question 3 - How Effective Is The Combination Of My Main Product and Ancillary Texts

The poster which has a rainbow across two men holding hands plus the tagline 'why should being gay be so hard' tells us its going to be a serious film about homosexuality. We are then able to link the poster and the film because they both contain the same title. 

We are also able to link the film and the review due to the still image from the film being used as the picture for the review (which is the empire typical print convention), furthermore if they read the review after having seen the short they would recognize the plot of what they had seen after reading the plot summary. 

The review itself would allow people who had not seen the film to gain an accurate idea of what it was about without becoming bias, the review does contain praise but it also contains enough critique to stay neutral. 

The link between the two ancillary texts is clear, they both give clear knowledge of the film to the audience. They both contain the title 'The other side of the rainbow' and though both images are not the same, they both give the audience the impression of homosexuality, the use of the rainbow and the two men in holding hands would lead someone to draw that conclusion, and the picture used in the review would lead people to the same conclusion because the boy looks quite feminine, which is why we picked that still image from the film, plus the use of mise-en-scene in the back of the shot would connote the idea of homosexuality.





The poster would appeal to a certain kind of audience, the background being done in black and white would appeal to an audience who had a penchant for more serious films, this combined with the gritty font would probably attract people who enjoyed social realist films. It could also attract someone who enjoys films about current issues, the rainbow being the only thing in colour in the poster causes it to stand out, rainbows are already connoted with homosexuality, when this is combined with the tagline 'why should being gay be so hard?' Shows an audience member what the film is about and if it appeals to their personal film tastes they would be encouraged to watch it.

The review would be more likely to be appealing to a teenage audience, its not as gloomy as the poster is which does downplay the seriousness, however  the red in the boarders in designed to be eye catching, which is useful because you need something to be eye catching to someone who is just flicking through a magazine in order to make them stop and look. Furthermore it could also appeal to film students , a review like this is also likely to be featured in a magazine like the BFI film selection.

Evaluation Question 2 - What Have I Learned From Audience Feedback

Evaluation Question 1 - Commentary Voiceover

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Gay Documentary Poster Ideas

We did preliminary poster designs for our film and this was my idea, it depicts the people that we've interviewed all wearing stonewall T-shirts which say 'Some people are gay. Get over it.' They all look happy to show they are proud of their sexuality. I included the title underneath which has not yet been decided and the tag line which reads 'Male, Female, Gay, Straight, Above all human.' Which was adapted from a video done by 'Chris Crocker' on youtube. 

However I no longer like this poster idea i feel it looks too light hearted and as a group wed decided that the documentary should have a more serious note to it seeing at it was a very serious issue in our society. 

My parts in the powerpoint presentation

In our presentation I contributed mainly to the audience research parts of the powerpoint, however i also constructed most of the other slides such as the location, conclusion and the questionnaire results.

In the further audience research i spent a great deal of time thinking of the most common ways teenagers recieved their news, then thought of the most popular site which was of course YouTube. The site which reached over one billion subscribers on october 29th 2010.

I did lots of research in to how homophobic bullying was percieved online and many reactions on how homophobia and homosexuality is being delt with around the world.

Survey Results

We collected together forty-one results from the survey, which i personally counted through every single survey, and tallied up the results then inputted it onto excel and created pie charts in order to present them to our class.