The document discusses conventions for ancillary products like movie posters and magazines. It notes that conventions include using sans serif fonts, prominent placement of the main title in bright colors, images of main characters, credits, and release dates. The document also discusses how the example poster and magazine it created follow conventions like developing a consistent house style, including coverlines and descriptions to entice readers, and using the route of the eye format.

1. Conventions for ancillary
products.
Brett Tinnion

2. Professional Poster
‘From the people who bought you’
to draw people in. The main title of the film.
Sans serif font and bright
colours.
Long shot of the main
characters.
Conventional movie credits.
sans serif to make it easy to read.
‘Coming Soon’ to tell
you to keep a look
out because the film
will be out soon. Logo of the production company
and other logos.

3. How my poster is conventional.
A quote from a newspaper is conventional,
I decided to use the New York Times because
The main title of the film
it is a well respected newspaper and will
is the biggest text on
therefore make people want to go and watch it.
the poster to make it
It is in sans serif font to make it easy to read.
stand out. It is in sans serif
font to make it easy to read and is Long shot of the main
bright red to make it stand out. characters, this is
to show clearly to the audience
that they are nerds as they are wearing
stereotypical nerdy clothing.
In every poster there is a picture
of the main characters.
The slogan for our film here. It
is a mysterious and makes the
I have chosen for the actors to be holding
audience want to know what
different props. Two of the three nerds are
there mission is. It will make
holding nerdy items like a lightsaber and school
people want to go and see it.
books whereas one is holding a crate of beer. This
Sans serif font to make it easy to
gives a bit of the storyline and this is conventional
read and the black furthermore
for the image to give away a bit of the plot.
makes it easy to read.
Film credits at the bottom of the page
Coming soon to show
to show the production company
when the film is coming
etc. Sans serif font to make it easy to read.
out. This is used in the poster
Credits make the poster look a lot more
because people want to know
conventional because they are used in
when they can come and see
every poster.
the film. It is conventional as
it is used in every film poster.
Production company
logo to show who made
I have created a house style in my poster by the film. They use this because
using consistent colours, red, black and white. people become fans of companies so they
It follows conventions because it has a quote, would want to go see this
image, slogan, credits and when it is coming
out.

4. My poster is conventional because it creates a house style like the Superbad poster.
It also has a long shot image of the main characters. The title scene is in sans serif
font and is the biggest font on the page to make it stand out. There are also movie
credit fonts at the bottom these are conventional because they are used in every
film poster. Finally, the coming soon is also conventional as in every
film poster there is either a release date or coming soon.

5. Professional Magazine
Main mast head. Bold and the biggest
Website, issue number text on the screen to make it stand out.
and date is very
conventional.
Long shot of a provocatively dress
girl who is in the main article of the
magazine. Her hand is bleeding which
makes people want to read more as Lots of coverlines
they want to know why her hand to show to the audience
is bleeding. that there is a lot
of articles in the magazine.
More coverlines
More coverlines
Main article pull quote, to make
the reader want
to read more and also
Barcode and logo of company.
a brief introduction to the article,
which is conventional.

6. How my magazine is conventional.
Website of the magazine,
date and issue number. This
is conventional as it used
in all magazines.
Mast head will stand out as it
used red and black font colour
which contrast together and
will therefore stand it. It is in sans Title of the article followed
serif font to make it stand out further by a brief description of what
and make it easier to read. is in the article. This is conventional
as many magazines have lots of
coverlines.
Main story of the magazine is the biggest
text on the magazine except the mast
head. There is also a brief description of
the article, which will make people want Coverlines on the right and
to read it. The text is sans serif font left of the magazine is conventional
to make it easy to read. It is as it shows the reader that there is
conventional for the main article lots to read in the magazine.
to have a brief description as it makes
people want to read the article.
Barcode which is
conventional for all magazines
Mid shot of the person who is the main
focus of the magazine. He is dressed in
a suit to show that he is important and
connotes fame. it will attract the audience More coverlines
to the magazine as they want to know
what Brett Tinnion is saying about his new
film.
The route of the eye format is used in this magazine. You see
I have created a house style on this magazine
the mast head then you see the image to the main article,
front cover by using only three colours; red, black
then you see some coverlines, then you see the main article
and white. I have chosen these colours so it relates
name and brief description and then finally another coverline
to my film and therefore the audience will be
and then a barcode which is conventional for magazines to
able to associate the magazine with Graduation.
follow this convention.

7. As you can see below my magazine uses a lot of conventions of similar media products. They both have developed a house style.
They also have lots of coverlines to make the reader want to buy it because they have a lot of articles to read. All of the fonts
used are sans serif to make them easy to read and also are bold and have bright vibrant colours to make them stand out. Both
magazines have the date, issue number and website which is conventional. The images are similar because they both show
who is in the main article as this is very conventional. On the main article there is a brief description to the article which is also
conventional as it makes the reader want to read more.