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

2. Why the prints are forms appropriate choices for you
production and audience?
They give an insight into the show and gives the viewer an
understanding of what they will be watching
It also represents the genre of the documentary well, the
work show relevant information for example the time
‘Wednesday 28th of March, 8:00pm’ and also what
channel the documentary is showing on.
The magazine double page spread is appropriate as it
shows key scenes from the show and gives an in depth
look into the journey of ‘River Travel’

3. Date which it is
airing so that the
reader can make
Magazine Double Page Spread.
a metal note.
A few
different
pictures to
entice and
intrigue the
reader into
watching the
documentary.
Here we have an
outline of the
main story line,
which helps
readers find out
about the show
previous to it
airing.

4. A small caption to make the
Newspaper advertisement. reader think what the
documentary is about.
The time and place where An interesting picture to capture the
the documentary will be viewers attention and show the journey
showing. down the river which will be taken.

5. How have your three productions been designed to harmonise
with one another: to look like they ‘belong’ together? Consider
especially your use of image, font and mode of address.
 Newspaper advert-In this advert we used the same shape of
river to show the journey which we will be taking in the first
series, the advert and the documentary have similar fonts and
pictures because they are linked due to the our company
producing the documentary and marketing it, where as the
double page spread is produced by RadioTimes.
 Double page spread- The image used as the background is a
provocative insight into our travel and the smaller pictures also
give an insight into the documentary and what/who will be in it.
This doesn’t have as much of a connection to the documentary
as the advert but still will feature main parts of the doc. The
photos used in the RadioTimes advert were shots taken by the
production team of the documentary and given to the
RadioTimes.

6.  The font used went along with the idea of flowing rivers, we used
a font which we believed resembled this best, we used this for
both the newspaper advert and the magazine article because,
through research we realised that both institutes that created the
pieces would go with a similar theme, even though they are not
linked.
 The mode of address throughout all of our pieces of work is
interactional, this is because it is the type of documentary which
we were creating.

7. How clearly do the print materials convey the
genre/narrative/characters of your moving image text?
 The magazine advertisement clearly shows the genre of
the show, we do this with screen captures from the
documentary, which illustrates a few different places
where the boat stops off at. The Magazine advertisement
also shows the main presenter on set interacting with the
viewers.
 The main picture of the magazine article is a provocative
picture of a local river and the boat which I would be
embarking on, we used this picture to link to narrative
which is a travel from one end of a river to the other.

8. How effectively do they serve as marketing tools? Use what you
learned last year about film marketing help you to answer this
question.
 I believe that the newspaper advert will market the documentary
but it could have been much better than it was. If I would have put
more information into the advert it would have enhanced the
narrative of the show and if I would have put a picture if myself,
the presenter, I believe that it would have set the scene for the
advert better than it did.
 Even though the magazine advert is not seen as marketing tool
from the view of the documentary producers, it serves as a great
tool to inform the viewer of what is coming up in the series and
because of this it becomes a great tool of advertising.