In this document, the author discusses their main product which was a film showing the physical and emotional pain of mental illness through the character Alex slowly losing her sanity. The intended audience was those aged 12 and up who enjoy psychological thrillers, which typically target male audiences. To create synergy between the film and ancillary texts, the author made a radio trailer using audio from the film set to a creepy ambient soundtrack. The film poster was also designed to fit the psychological thriller genre, using the same font as the film credits and contrasting blue and yellow colors to create an unsettling feeling and represent the character's descent into madness.

1. How effective is the combination of your main
product and the ancillary text.
CRITICAL EVALUATION
QUESTION 2
Gemma Leigh
Bramhold

2. In my main product I wanted to show both the physical and emotion pain mental
illness. I did this by showing Alex (My main Character) slowly losing her mind
and to solidify her loss of sanity I showed Alex screaming in a room to show she
was scared and frightened. My target audience for my film are people aged 12 and
up, who enjoy the psychological thriller genre. Typically Psychological thrillers are
aimed towards men (like in Shutter island) but after deciding to have a female
protagonist it was clear that my film was aimed towards women.
WHAT WERE YOU TRYING TO
ACHIEVE IN YOUR MAIN PRODUCT
I solidified this by making my radio trailer and my I
used audio from my film. In my radio trailer to create
synergy. I used a royalty free song that I found and
used an ambient sound track along side it to create a
creepy feel. This works well as it can be found in
most Psychological thriller radio trailers.

3. I solidified this by making my poster similar to my film so that it would fit with my
chosen genre. I did this by using the same font on both my credits/title sequence and on
my poster. Although on my poster, I used Blue and yellow, two contrasting colours to
create a feeling of uneasiness. This created synergy.
Title sequence font in my film Font used on my poster
Although I used two bright colours for my poster I think it works as those colours represents
my characters slow decent into madness.

4. This is my film poster. The three main
colours that I used were yellow, blue and
white. I decided to use Yellow and blue as
they are contrasting colours and would
make my poster stand out. I add four
ratting at the top of the page to make it
look like a real film poster as well as using
the font steel tongs for the credits at the
bottom as this is the font they use for all
film posters

5. Bold, Bright colours used
on title, making them stand
out to the audience
Singular character in
dark colours. This
shows that they are
the main characters
Use of steel
tongs for
credits.
Eyes not visible.
Making the character seem dark/evil
I used the poster ‘Texas Chainsaw 3D’ as my inspiration as it gave a similar feel to what I
wanted my poster to be. I wanted my poster to seem creepy and ominous. The bold text
draws the eye of the audience as do the star ratings and the certificate.