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1. HOW EFFECTIVE IS THE
COMBINATION OF YOUR
MEDIA PRODUCT AND
ANCILLARY TASKS?
Question 2

2. It is vital that the my media product – a teen thriller film trailer – and
the ancillary tasks – film magazine front cover and film poster – that
accompany it, all show continuity, to make it evident to the audience,
that these are all promoting the same teen film. My Wix page is also
designed in a similar way to the main and ancillary tasks so that it
looks like it is part of the entire promotional package.

4. When doing similar text analysis as part of my research, I looked at
teen film, ‘The Perks of Being a Wallflower,’ and then I later looked at
the poster, and at the feature on it in, ‘Nylon,’ magazine (although it is
not a film magazine) they all still made use of the bright yellow colour
featured in the trailer. This kept a consistency between them and
allowed people to identify the pact that all three products represented
the same film.

6. We also wanted to replicate the same type of continuity in our own trailer, film
magazine cover, and film poster. We put a slightly blue filter over the entire trailer, so
that it would look dark, and represent the teen thriller genre accurately. Then to keep up
the consistency, we kept the colour blue as part of the house style of our magazine, and
white, so that it would match with the title of the film. We also added a blue filter over
our film poster, and that also continues with the same dark/ blue theme. Additionally,
the protagonist wears a black hoody throughout the entire trailer, and this is her
defining feature, so we also had her wear this same hoody on the front cover of the
magazine and the poster. Similarly, one of the supporting male characters also wears the
same coat in the trailer that he does on the magazine cover, further keeping up with the
continuity and further making it evident that this magazine is featuring the same film as
the trailer.

8. We not only kept consistency with the colours and the clothes, but we
also stuck with conventions of real media texts. In my STAs I looked
at the front cover of Empire Magazine, and it was featuring the
newest Superman film, and they also had the actor wear his superman
costume.

10. Overall, we replicated the conventions of real media texts to create a
package for our film, by effectively combining the main media
product and the ancillary tasks, as it is evident that they all represent
the same film due to the continuity between the three products as well
as the Wix page.