ill Manors Instagram

1. How has Ill Manors used the Instagram platform to promote Ill Manors?

On Plan B's instagram page, there are images promoting the film, the images are posters of the film with release dates and ratings. There are also posters advertising that you can now buy it on Blue Ray. 

2. Choose three particular images/posts and explain why they are effective in promoting the film.

One image that is really effective is the poster with different comments from newspapers and magazines, this image is really effective in promoting the film, firstly because Riz Ahmed the main character is on the poster itself and secondly it has received many positive comments which are outlined on the poster on each side of Riz Ahmed.

Another image is of the director sitting on the wall and it says ill Manors, this image is promoting the music video, and the album as the poster is originally created from a music video shot. Lastly there is an image of all the cast and crew with the ill Manors poster, there are two quotes on each side reading 'brilliant, brutal, powerful' and on the other side 'Raw thrilling and utterly gripping' these show a quote from mens health magazine and d magazine. This is an effective way to promote something as it shows audiences views from magazines and how well the movie is doing from the opinions of those who have already watched it.

3.What hashtags are used on Instagram to promote the film? Is there consistency in branding/hashtags across social media? Why is this important?

There are no hashtags used, below any of the pictures there are no hashtags, therefore there is no consistency in branding the movie.

4. Find three images on Instagram tagged with Ill Manors that relate to other texts you have studied across the three platforms (such as the music video, TEDx lecture or a print interview). Explain the synergy between the texts. 

There are 3 images which are posters of the the movie, they show posters of Plan B's movie ill Manors, they relate to other texts we have studied in class which are the Tedx lecture and the print interview. There is an image of him when he is in an interview with Fearne Cotton on the Radio One show.