1. “How effective is the combination
of your main product and ancillary
texts?”

2. • With most films that are coming out in the cinema often
have a poster and magazine cover to accompany the trailer,
these texts relate to the trailer or film by following the
same colour scheme, using the same actors and including
the same titles. These texts help to increase the audience’s
interest for the film; often the actors in the films will
generate interest by going on talk shows and other forms
to media to create a “buzz” around the film and increase
publicity. We used our poster and magazine to link back to
our film through using similar colour schemes, mise en
scene, and using the main characters as the focal points of
each piece.

3. • For our ancillary texts we wanted to very
much keep the theme of the genre of the
period drama, to do this we focused heavily
on the mise en scene, and tried to make the
poster and magazine front cover link back to
the main product.
• Throughout all of the texts we used the
same location and costumes, in order to
make each product link to one another
smoothly and to create a sense of continuity
and a more professional feel.

4. • I will be referencing and comparing “The
Hunger Games” ancillary texts to ours (“An
Honourable Affair”) , in order to show how
we made our texts look as professional as a
real film and its supplementary texts.

5. Example Poster:
The main character
is on the forefront
of the poster,
showing that this
character is the
most important; the
main character is
also used on the
The red yellow magazine front
and black cover, continuing
colour scheme the theme.
is followed
through in all
of the texts,
keeping the
continuity. The title “The Hunger
Games” is in a large font
across the front of the
poster, establishing that
The “Hunger Games”
it is the title.
logo is used
throughout all of the
texts, establishing the
brand and name of the
film. The use of a
billing block
includes the
films name, and
the actor’s
names.

6. We used the two main
characters on the poster as this
too was a direct link to the
Our Poster: We used the title “An Honourable
Affair” and put it at the top of the
film and helps the audience poster so it is clear to the audience
identify the two main that it is the title of the poster and
protagonists. We had them draws their eye towards it, also
sitting like this in this photo as linking back to the trailer as the
it conveyed to the audience title appears at the end of the
that they were a couple and trailer, therefore creating a
that the film was about connection between the two.
romance and love, which is
what the trailer also connotes.
We used this tagline as
We used a similar we felt it conveyed that
location to one of the there is a sense of
shots in the trailer conflicting emotions and
(screen capped relationships in the film,
below), the fountain which relates to our
flowers and garden to trailer.
create a clear link
between the trailer As mentioned before we
and the poster, and focused heavily on the
focusing on the mise mise en scene, we used the
en scene. same costumes used in the
film, so it links back more
obviously to the film.
For the background we used the same
dialogue that was used at the film in the
beginning eg “Dear Charlotte…” – this is
a direct link to the film, and brings both
products together. The font used for this
We included a billing block in order to make our poster background is also the same that we used
look more professional, as this is a technique used by all for the titling (pictured left), creating a
film posters. subtle link between the two once again.

7. The same red yellow
Example magazine front cover:
The same main character is
and orange colour
used on both the front cover
scheme is used.
and the magazine, keeping
Keeping the same
the continuity and
theme of fire and
establishing who the main
destruction etc,
character is.
creating synergy
between the poster
and the front cover.
The same “Hunger
Games” logo is also in It is obvious from the cover
the background, lines such as “Death!
showing how both the Destruction! Dystopia!” that the
poster and magazine magazine is about science
front cover are linked; fiction films therefore linking
it also establishes the with the genre of the film. There
films brand. are also references to other
science fiction films that further
suggests the genre of the
magazine, we also did this with
The name of the film our magazine through the use of
is in a large font cover lines referencing other
across the front cover, period drama films.
linking the poster and
the magazine cover.

8. We focused on the mise en
We used the same Our Magazine Front Cover: scene heavily once again as
main character in it would make all the
this text as well as products look authentic and
the poster in the work together coherently.
same way that “The We did this by using the
Hunger Games” has same background location of
done, as it links well the courtyard and balcony
to the trailer and the that was used in one of the
poster, , we also felt shots links directly to the
this picture looked trailer (which is screen
professional and capped below), therefore the
created a dramatic audience can identify the
impact. setting from the trailer and
create an association with
We used the name of the film.
the character as the
main and largest
cover line, showing
that the word
“introducing”
suggests that this is a
new character from a
new film, and
generates interest
from the audience.
We made it clear that
the magazine was
about period drama
with cover lines such
as “best period
We included the title of our film, “An Honourable Affair” in one of the cover lines as this links directly drama films ever
to the film. The use of the tagline creates interest around the film, the words” “exclusive” “featuring” made”.
and “interview” would make the reader of the magazine want to know more about the film.

9. • Overall I think our ancillary text works well in
combination with the trailer as there are many
references back to the trailer, and many clear links
between the two.
• The ancillary texts provide extra information about
the trailer and create more interest around our
film, we believe that the audience will be able to
make clear links and connections between the
three products well as it is clear that they work in
synergy with the use of the same actors, same
locations and costumes and the same titles.