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

2. • The intention for our production was to entertain and
intrigue the audience through our exciting trailer. By
interesting the audience this would make them want to
go and see it.

3. • Our ancillary task included making a poster and
website which still maintained that thriller element that
our trailer provides. The reason they had to remain
very similar to show that they are all linked together
and not the audience don’t get confused by different
themes.

4. • Vladimir Propp’s theory is that they are many different character
types which appear in media, this links to our trailer in numerous
ways. Our trailer contains a villain, princess and a hero and also a
helper. The princess or the girl in distress is clearly shown not just
through the trailer in the parts where she is tied up and virtually
helpless, but in the title “Fallen Grace”. The villain is portrayed
inn the scene where he is kidnapping the princess. The hero is not
as obvious as Sam the boyfriend top the princess is shown with
here and in the school assembly scene the close up of his face and
the connotations that you can read from his facial expression
indicate he is going to do something. The helper is shown in the
scene in which she throws the chair over in classroom and also in
the assembly scene she is sat besides the hero signifying she is
going to help.

5. • Tzvetan Todorov’s theory is that there is a equilibrium, then
there is a disruption to the equilibrium and the a final
resolution to the problem than a new equilibrium formed.
However Todorov is referring to a full film and our production
is only a trailer so we manage to have 2 out of 3 which is
conventional in trailer. The reason for this is that a trailer will
show the staring equilibrium and then the disruption which is
what interests the audience, they do no show the new
equilibrium as that would obviously give a short video of what
happened in the movie so people would not go an see it.

6. • Our website was given a similar theme quite dark, however
the website does posses some light to it as there is a gradient
effect used going from grey to white. The font used for the
website is serif so it still gives that eerie effect which still
gives that thriller element to the film. The photograph used
on the main page is of Charlie and Grace together which is
different to what you would expect from a conventional
thriller movie website.

7. • Our page layout is simple, we have a theme throughout the
website so it gives the element of darkness. Our main page has
the title and the trailer visible on the main page. The rest of the
pages have a similar lay out, except the contact page which is
has a simple layout easy for the viewer of the website so they
can easily contact the cast and producers. Lastly we have
Facebook and Twitter links so it helps advertise and promote
our film.

8. • The poster in which we have used and have designed is a lot
darker with a bloodied up picture of the main actor Grace.
The theme of the poster is very dark and serious developing
connoting thriller elements to it. Also on the poster the font
and text style is different and is san serif, the reason for this
is that the poster is already dark and it does not need serif
font to provide it with a thriller edge unlike the website
which is slightly less dark. The black font used on the poster
adds to the darkness of the poster and fits well together with
the gruesomeness of the main image.

9. • We have achieved our aim of providing both our website and
poster with a chiaroscuro lighting. To create a mystery and
suspense, the lighting connotes a dark thriller theory in which
we want our trailer to show. Also the similarity of both
excluding the dark theme is that they both contain a picture of
Grace the main actress and also the film is named after.