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

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• I have made a poster for our film using the industry standard software In Design. It creates professional
layouts and tools that create conventional poster that we read today. We are able to manipulate images
and fonts that are supported by professional layouts.
• The whole point of creating a film poster and review is for promotional purposes- In our position as a
independent film company, promoting normally proves to be difficult. It is therefore important to create
a synergy between both the poster and review so people can expect what to see when they come to
watch our film.
• It is important as well to establish a hybrid genre of comedy & horror as there is a large market for these
types of films. I tried my best to reflect this in the designs of my poster and review

3. My research in to short film posters and reviews outlined that not many people make short film
posters or have featured short film reviews in magazines articles. The niche market has been
known to be normally not worth the effort. Most short film reviews are mainly seen online. They
are normally made my amateur journalists or bloggers. Here is an example…

4. Here are the two ancillary texts. As you can see, they relate
to each other in one way or the other. Most evident is that
they both have used a very similar main image of our kid.
This is the memorable moment when he opens the door to
our delivery man and snatches the box out of his hand.
Although he looks threatened and scared, he also has a
sense of purpose and we can guess that he has dark
motives.

5. With my film poster, I wanted to
create a strong sense of enigma
and also establish the genre. This
can be achieved by the random
items in my film posters that
relate closely with the film. They
include the garden hoes (a
harmless but effective tool used
by Rufus our delivery man. We
also have a pizza slicer and a
slice of pizza, a strong motif in
our film as it is centered around a
delivery.

6. Poster
• With our poster, we have established two characters,
Harry and Rufus. They relate to our film as it is clear that
they are two conflicting characters. They are also both
evil through the strong use of red that reflects their
motives.
• For my first draft of my final poster, I hope I have
emphasized my hybrid of genre. We have an extensive
use of black with sinister picture grading but also the
poster has humor through the caption and the random
images that are not normally related to horror.
• Out of the three production companies that are involved
on my poster, I believe that Short of the Week would be
best be suited in distributing my film. It is known
primarily for showing short, professional and high
quality looking films. Although it doesn’t distribute it
has been known for sponsoring films in the past.

7. This font is called “Tasty Drips” it relates to our
main media product as it tells an audience that
the film is centered around pizza- red colour
relating to tomato and yellow relating to cheese!
I found this incredibly effective as it is a font that
can be interpreted with horror and comedy
qualities by its gruesome liquidy elements.

8. Film Review
The aim for my film article was to outline a description of the film but also asses the pros and
cons of the film while doing mock interviews of my self and my partner acting, the two directors
and editors. My review was targeted and designed specifically for a 'Sight and Sound' audience as
it is principally text with a single image
Overall, the review relates extensively to our main product as it describes in detail various shots
including
• The comical elements of Harry not being able to order Quattro Fromaggi as it does bad things
to his stomach
• In depth description of Rufus our delivery man
• The suffocation of our delivery man in cling film

9. Within our film, we have a synergy of
ratings. We have outlined clearly that
both films are at a 12 A. This is a
conventional rating for comedy
horrors and we base this on Edgar
Wright films
Pull quote of “Home Alone
Meets The Shining” is seen on
my poster from this magazine
review. This is a great summary
our film in relation to these
block buster films
Star rating from our
magazine “Brolly” that we
have incorporated in our
poster- We thought four
stars was a fair offer
Mention of the co director Oliver
Mould as seen in my poster on top
of page

10. Effectiveness of main product and
Ancillary Texts
• In general, both my poster and my review have combined effectively towards my
media product. A Sight and sound audience does not normally have comedy
horror films and an audience is more sophisticated and has a higher level of lexis,
though I like this layout. It uses soft colours to enhance the naturalism and is a
majority text based.
• My poster more reflects the genre of my film as it incorporates the dark colours
with the sinister picture grading. It also enforces a sense of ambiguity and would
entice an audience more through the rather eccentric use of images and
encourages audiences to make interpretations of the film.