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

2. Links between the poster, magazine
and trailer are crucial, although if the
film were produced by an actual film
company, they would have more
methods of linking the different media
types together as apposed to just the
three we created. We linked all three via
colour theme, characters and common
themes, and example of this is in the
poster we have every main character
introduced, as we do in our trailer.

4. The character of “Hope Denton” is portrayed in both the trailer and the poster as the
same character, the “heart throb” to the protagonist “Jack”, showing this by linking her
dialogue that is said in the trailer and the theme we created using stereotypical hearts
and colours to do this, it was successful because you can clearly see that link between
her character in both. It was important we created this link because the subtle dialogue
and symbolism of her writing love hearts in a shot with Jacks name on the page
represents the background we used for our poster. Hope is also linked to the magazine
front cover because she is next to “Jack” on the front, smiling and looking sweet. We
linked the characters together in all three parts of our productions tasks by making sure
they are represented in the same way they were in the trailer.

5. Jack is shown in the poster with musical notes around him which symbolises a
musical theme to his nature, however a downfall of representing him in the poster is
that he does not look as nerdy as he does in the trailer. It was very important that
we linked him by colour also, his hat he wore for a couple of scenes was green as
well. Our colour theme in the poster seemed to be successful because it allowed a
slight colour change to what Jack was presented as in the poster. Another flaw of
the poster is Jacks representation as a dancer, however if we had done him
dancing we would not have had an affective magazine cover because that
represents him mainly as a dancer. The magazine cover is linked to the trailer as it
has the same release date and names of the characters on the front, the magazine
is also linked to the trailer as it has the main protagonist appearing the most and the
characters starring in the movies The black background represents the background
to our “YouTube views” scroll that was going up throughout the trailer.

6. “Alby” is shown in a successful way as he represents the “nerd” stereotype in all three
of our tasks. Alby’s character appears as the clever character that is known for
questioning Jack’s new fame, however we shown him in the poster and trailer but not
in the magazine front cover as he is not the protagonist. Dialogue used in the trailer
makes it obvious of the characters nature, such as “you’ve changed” which is implying
to Jack that he doesn’t like his nerdy friend is becoming something different to what he
is normally seen to be.

7. The titles that feature in the trailer are very
similar to the colours that we used in the
poster. This subtle variation in colour is
affective because the audience will be able
to make connections between the colour
themes. The trailer titles had to comply with
the conventions of a teen movie, therefore
be slightly colourful as most teen movies
such as “hairspray” are, however we
wanted to specifically link the colours to our
poster because we thought it would look
the most affective. The words used in the
titles that appear in our trailer are also
linked to the poster tagline “The dance floor
will never be the same again” as they refer
to our protagonist dancing, e.g. “He can
dance” the two varieties in the same kind of
theme that runs through both the poster
and the trailer are effective because it
makes the poster and the trailer refer back
to one another.

8. The titling is a key feature of our
movie genre and we used similar
font’s throughout the whole task, for
example the poster and the trailer, we
kept them simplistic. Teen movie’s
use particular fonts because a
younger audience is going to be
drawn more to an eye-catching and
colourful title, therefore that was why
we used the fonts we did. We used
the taglines on our magazine that
were similar to the font’s of our trailer
titles as well. We wanted the bold
“Just Jack” title to stand out, therefore
used alliteration because it sounds
catchy when read. The colourful
version used on the poster is
important because the colours
contrast the pictures on the poster
and they also contrast with the titles in
our trailer!

9. Zone was used as the heading to our
magazine front cover because it is
catchy and similar to other main
magazine companies. “Zones” colour
theme also runs across our titles in
our film trailer.

11. In conclusion we used colour themes
and fonts without our three media
products to make them effective and if
the film was marketed we could then use
these themes further in other products
and advertising campaigns. If anything
could be changed it would be the
magazine front cover’s colour theme to
make it brighter to suite a more “teen
friendly” audience!