The document discusses Rothna Aayman's research on magazine covers, posters, and film trailers to inform the design of their own ancillary products promoting a psychological thriller film. They analyzed conventions like prominent mastheads on magazine covers and images of characters holding guns on thriller posters. For their magazine cover, trailer, and poster, they implemented many of these conventions but also experimented, such as depicting characters from behind rather than showing their faces. The goal was to intrigue audiences and convey the suspenseful genre while still signaling that the products are related to a film.

1. Rothna Aayman

3. I have carried out research on products such as magazines,
posters and teaser trailers.
After analysing the magazine covers (Empire, Sight and
Sound and Total Film) I have established that they have
certain elements which are conventional, i.e. the use of
Masthead and the way that it is big and bold which
immediately catches the audience’s attention, making them
aware of the product. For that reason I found this very
effective and decided to implement these forms into my own
magazine. I used sight & sound to promote my teaser trailer.

4. The background colour
of the magazines tend to
be a dark colour with the
main cover line a much
brighter colour, therefore
I decided to have my
background as the
image from my teaser
trailer which has a dark
atmosphere, this also
creates a link between
my teaser trailer &
magazine.
My main cover line
(PSYCHOPATH) is
in the colour red,
which also
corresponds with
the colour of the
clothes that the
villain wears.

5. I also analysed 3 different
posters consisting of the
same genre as my final
product. I was able to
identify that the genres
involved suspense by the
use of the main image
e.g. both ‘SALT’ and
‘TAKEN’ have their main
characters holding a gun.

6. Further, in the obsessed poster
it includes images of 3 people
on the front, this allows the
audience to establish that they
are the main characters. This
gave me the idea to include the
two main characters from my
teaser trailer on my poster.

7. Most of these posters tend to
focus on the face of the main
character, usually the
eyes/facial expression, for
example in all 3 of my posters
that I analysed; the facial
expressions of the main
characters are very intense.
However I went against this convention and had my
main characters’ backs turned against the audience
as I believe that this creates a more mysterious
feel, further depicting the genre of the film and
making the audience want to know more. I also
asked my audience what they thought of using this
mage & they felt that it was a good idea as the
image itself portrays a clear message of someone
being followed further illustrating my genre.

8. On the whole I believe that my ancillary products My magazine cover is conventional as I
are conventional. felt that in order for my audience to
understand and recognize that my
product is a magazine, it had to make
use of its forms and conventions. For
example initially I wanted to place the
main cover line at the bottom however I
felt that this would be confusing as the
title of my poster is placed under the
centre of the page. Another feature
which I found was conventional in
magazines is the cover lines which are
placed on the right hand side & are in a
much smaller font.
I decided to stick with the
original forms and
conventions of a poster,
i.e. placing the title of the
film in the centre of the
poster, having the
production credits in a
narrow font, I found these
very common when
carrying out my research.

9. For my main product (teaser trailer) I have challenged some of the forms
of a thriller film as I have combined it with a suspense genre, creating a
less of a gory, gruesome effect and more of an interesting, tense, nerve-
racking feel.
For my final product I focused on
the character in the film Costello,
From my research I established that a typical who portrays an ominous, troubled
thriller convention is the focus of the main young man who stalks Rosaline,
character that has a troubled or ominous (who is the innocent victim), and
personal history. This is typically the female wants to torture her. This is a
character. For example in the thriller common focus of a psychological
Obsessed, Ali Larter plays a thriller. Therefore I
menacing character who chose to develop and remain with
wants to have the life of the character played this convention because it allows
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focus of the film.
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10. A common convention I found in all
films is that the fade transition
represents time pass. The longer the
fade the longer the time pass. Therefore
instead of using words i.e. “1 hour later”,
to portray the message that the time has
passed I used the fade transition which
lasts for approximately 4 seconds to
allow the audience to establish that little
time has passed and Rosaline is now at
home.
I was also inspired by final destination 5 teaser
trailer. I thought the fact that each shot which
was a short glimpse placed a very mysterious
intense effect. Therefore I also decided to use
this form in my own teaser trailer to create a
mystifying feel.
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