The design developments establish the different stages of the production of the ancillary product - a magazine review.

1. DESIGN DEVELOPMENTS – ANCILLARY PRODUCT
(POSTER)

2. During the planning process of the ancillary products, flat plans
were created in order to create an ideal layout for the ancillary
product – a magazine review. From the flat plans, I was able to
retrieve the layout and apply them to the production process
of the magazine review. Boxes were created and subsequently,
images were applied within the boxes. This was created on
Photoshop. Once the images were imported onto iPhoto,
Adobe Photoshop was used in order to convert the colour
images to black and white. In addition, the images were altered
slightly – a grainy effect was added in order to distort the
images and create a sense of mystery, which is conventional to
the horror genre. The opacity of the colours was changed for
the textual elements of the magazine review, so that the
colours were not block and would blend in well with the
woodland background of the ancillary product. This concluded
the production process considering the creation of the images
and titles of the magazine review.

3. For the production of the textual element of the
magazine review, Microsoft Word was used, as the
layout that is conventional to the product was not
accessible on Photoshop. A black background was
applied, since it is conventional to the horror genre
– it acts as a connotation of death and therefore
foreshadows the narrative. In addition, it serves to
create a sense of foreboding and impending doom
that is often applied to horror productions. What is
more, the colour red, which creates a sense of
urgency and consequently, acts as a source of
entertainment for the target audience, due to the
fact that is connotes danger, the colour red was
also applied. Once these conventional colours
were applied to the interview of the director for
the magazine review, it was then imported onto
Photoshop and applied to the magazine review.