Ancillary Tasks-Poster

Unfortunatley, posts about the Ancillary tasks have been rare to this blog , however thats about to change. Soon all the props would have arrived so the DVD covers shoot will be able to take place. Also the final sketch will be uploaded when it has been photographed. Relating back to the film Kick Ass, that was recently mentioned with the idea for Petrovs costume, the images below were found via Google.

These images above, are great ideas for posters. As you can see each character from the film, has a poster, and this has created a little game for marketing the film. When people see the film advertised, then they see these posters, they will want to find the other characters, and see the differences. This then imbeds the film into the spectators minds, making them want to watch the film.

The low angle of all the pictures creates dominance, also the perspective makes the image look fantastic. Instead of a repetitive poster that is seen everywhere, this idea of having different posters, to create a game for the spectators, has made the film already a lot more interesting.

An example of another film that recently used this is the final Harry Potter, Part 2. The front cover image, was devided up and scattered around london, as banners. Already to the films success, this still made all the difference, because it made the film interesting again, because it was said that from film critics, that

'part 1, hasn't left an interesting enough cliff hanger, to what was expected', and simple advertising such as this helped it regain some of its audience, becase it made it interesting again. Although the idea is small as is the result of audience that it will improve the film by, 'every little helps'