The document discusses the creation and inspiration behind the poster and magazine cover for a documentary trailer called "Change". The poster was inspired by dark, minimalist posters that focused on close-ups of faces. It features an edited close-up of eyes to represent seeing through someone else's eyes. The magazine cover went through several revisions before settling on a simple black and white design inspired by Variety magazine. Both the poster and magazine cover effectively represent the documentary and would attract an audience interested in learning life stories and points of view.

1. HOW EFFECTIVE IS THE
COMBINATION OF YOU MAIN
PRODUCT AND ANCILLARY TEXTS?
BY EMMA DUNN

2. INSPIRATION
In order to be able to show what I wanted I looked for
posters that were a little on the dark side and had very little
or close to no colour to them because I was trying to reflect
my trailer through the poster. All the posters that I was
looking at were dark and this is what I liked about them.
When looking at the Horns poster the same sort of look is on
my poster where the eyes are the same colour as the title. I
didn’t initially copy the horns poster but this is what I have in
a way based it off of but I wanted to show the trailer through
someone else's eyes hence why they change.
All the posters that I have chosen are either close ups of the
face or are a side profile and this is what I like because on
some posters you will have the whole body and I this didn’t
appeal to me.

3. POSTER
• When I was creating my poster I was looking at some of the
images of James Dean posters where they were set in black
and white.
• I liked the way that you could only see parts of face for the
James Dean poster and this is what made part of my poster
for “Change”. This was what influenced me to use it on my
final poster design. This means that I was able to edit the eyes
because part of face was already covered and I had space to
edit some. I edited the eyes for a reason and it was because
the idea of being able to see through someone else's eyes
made me like the idea of changing the eye colour, mainly for
this. I said that if I changed the eye colour then I would also
change the colour of the writing for the poster. I don't want
to do this idea anymore because the green works a lot better
than the other colours that I tried.

4. INSPIRATION
• When I first started to make my Magazine Cover I went through
some phases of using Empire and Total Film. I liked the style and
the layout of the work and so I used them. I liked the way that the
writing will fit a majority of the page and you would have free reign
of put in some text and that is what I hoped to have shown. The
images of my own magazine cover are in order of how I edited and
changed them. This shows how much I changed, as well as what I
liked and what I disliked.
• I decided that these wouldn’t be any good for my poster in the end
because mine is a simple documentary and these companies deal
with some of the popular based films.
• In the end I looked at a magazine company called variety, who use
simple images of the actors and they are all in black and white
which is what I like about them, so I decided to use them for my
final piece.

5. MAGAZINE COVER
• My covers all went through a phase of being changed because I was either not happy with the cover
image or the layout of the work and so I decided to change all of it. I noticed that none of the work
actually focused on my trailer or the genre of my trailer and so I changed it again and this poster is
what I am more comfortable with. Its basic and that’s what I like about it and its colour scheme works
well and being in black and white is something I like it to be in. the result of the final product is what I
like a lot but with the other posters that I made I like the layout of the Empire writing yet with this
Variety one its writing layout is simpler.

6. “CHANGE” TRAILER
• When looking at my poster and the magazine cover I think that they both represent my trailer in their
own way. The poster because of the way that you can see through their eyes and the magazine cover
with the way that it is simple and yet its effective at the same time. If I was needing to watch this I
would because this is something that interests me, you get to know about other people and their life
stories from when they were younger as well as their point of view on some things.
• If I were to alter my ancillary texts I would have like to have included more people. In documentaries
you get a lot of people and how they see the situation depending on the topic.