Question three of my evaluation

1. How effective is the combination of
your main product and ancillary
tasks?
Kayleigh Rogers

2. Information

3. • For my course work my group and me
had to create a film trailer as you can
see to the left, along with two ancillary
tasks, which consisted if a film poster
and a magazine cover for the film. Our
genre was a sub-genre known as
psychological horror, so I did some
research on sub-genres and presented
this is the format of a Prezi. Then we
had to research into all the different
conventions associated with this genre
in order for it to appeal to the
appropriate audience. So I had
previously researched codes and
conventions of a psychological horror
in order to make sure that my media
products consist of the appropriate
aspects you would often consider with
this genre.

4.  Firstly I wanted to include phallic symbols
within my magazine, poster and trailer due
to this being a key convention of a
psychological horror. So the main prop
used within our trailer was a knife, so I
ensured that this was included within my
ancillary tasks. This is effect because the
fact that the exact same knife is used
throughout suggests that its campaign like
and they are linked. For example in
‘Leatherface’ in Texas chainsaw massacre
which is the trailer I did an analysis on can
been seen on the left where he is always
associated with his chainsaw. The knife
also suggests a sinister side to the trailer.
Within the trailer you see Elliot being attack
with a knife, the poster and magazine have
two shots on the antagonist holding a knife
to the protagonists face. This adds enigma

5.  For our trailer our characters where many
different attires (costumes) throughout to
represent past time and to represent different
events such as work, dressing gown, and
day to day clothing. However on the
magazine and the poster, costume isn’t very
visible as I fade the images so I could
overlap them on the dominant main image.
However the characters costume in the
poster is slightly visible as the protagonist
(Maddie) is wearing a black top which gives
of the connotations of mystery and death,
these are typical conventions that you would
expect to see in a psychological horror.
Again in the magazine you can only see
aspect of her black top. This gives them that
automatic link as the same costume is used
within both my ancillary task; the magazine
and the poster. Costume was important as
we wanted it to connote typical conventions
of a psychological horror such as; death,
blood, and violence. This is effective
because the connotations of black fit with the
conventions of a psychological horror.

6.  For my colour I used three main colours on my
ancillary tasks; these were black, red and white. This
is because red had the connotations of blood and
violence, white suggests purity, which is remaining
within some of the characters, and then we had black,
which connotes death and mystery. Within my poster I
used black and white images, this was so I could
create shadowing. This was effective as both the
magazine and poster contain shadowing, which
suggests that the darkness is taking the light. As the
majority of my image is consumed by darkness, which
suggests there is no hope. This then mirror the
narrative of our trailer because Maddie is constantly
under attack, we are hinted that something bad as
previously happened when she has been taking
medication, something not good. This hints at the
darkness consuming her, the cult constantly come
back, nothing is going right for her, which suggests it’s
easy for her to turn to the darkness. However the
white suggest purity in my ancillary tasks it suggest
there is hope and again it does this in the trailer. As
the first costume the protagonist wears is a shirt that
is black and white, this hints at the possibility her fate
hangs in the balance, she can go either way. The fact
that white and black are equally distributed suggests
that she can save herself or go to the dark side. This
is effective because black and white is represented

7.  For our fonts one main theme I have kept to it being
bold, this is effective as it stands out whether you’re
close to it or far away from it. Its eye catching which
makes it more prominent for you to want to watch it or
look at the poster and buy the magazine as it looks
intriguing and catches the eye. Our font had to be
effective for it to appeal to our audience so it had to be
picked carefully, so for my poster I picked a distorted
text, this was effective as it connects it with the trailer
as the protagonists thoughts are distorted through her
medication, or a cult sending her insane. Then for my
magazine I used a dripping blood font for my magazine
as this fit with the make I had done throughout the
trailer. I had put special effects make up on the actor to
fit in with the conventions of a psychological horror.
Plus I used dripping blood when a knife is approaching
Elliot, so this joins the link between the pair. This is
effective because they blood hint at blood with is a
convention of a psychological horror and they subtly
link to each other like a campaign would.

8. • Finally the characters are key for the ancillary tasks and the film
trailer. So I ensured that my masked antagonists were included
within the poster, magazine and the film trailer. This was
effective as is it obviously that although they use different
images they are all linking together. The characters on the
poster, magazine and in the trailer all recognizable as they
continually appear on the different synergy platforms;
magazine, poster and the trailer. This is effective because this
make the target audience associate them together, so again
they make a campaign.