The document discusses the effectiveness of combining a documentary with ancillary print works. It summarizes that the documentary and print works all maintained the theme of remembrance through the use of consistent iconography like poppies. Research was conducted on layout and design of comparable works to achieve cohesion across formats. Elements like background, objects, and typography were kept consistent to clearly link the documentary with the double page spread and newspaper advertisement promoting it.

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

2. Final Product
• The Genre we chose for our documentary was
War. More specifically World War II. This is
why we based most of our documentary on
the ‘remembrance’ theme.
• To maintain the theme of war we chose
specific iconography that suited remembrance
day. For example the use of a poppy on our
interviewee and on the beach.

3. Final Product
• There is a clear link between the documentary and the
print work. This is due to the same iconography used
(poppy) and the general war theme of the print work.
For example the gun, bullet and dog tag. The plain
wood background also gives an old fashion feel to the
print work. Had this been a different background then
there would be a more action feel to the piece.
• There is a more precise link between both print works
because some of the objects used are the same in both
print works and they were shot in the same
background.

4. Print Work
Double page spread

5. Print Work
Newspaper advertisement

6. Print Work
• To get our print work advertisement to the same
standard of our broadcasters, we had to research
into the layout of some of their war documentary
advertisements. Here we looked at where the
BBC logo would be placed and sizing. It also gave
us an idea of what iconography to include into
our print work to keep the misé en scene of our
documentary and print work the same. Research
also went into our chosen magazine ‘Radio Times’
about the layout of text that would go with our
double page spread and the newspaper
advertisement.

7. Repertoire of Elements

8. Research
• We created a repertoire of elements grid to enable
us to tick off our work with the grid in order to
maintain and stick to the war genre of our
documentary. This made research easier as we had
an idea of what to research whilst making the
documentary. This included key characters, scenery,
key iconography and story line.

9. Print Work Research
• When creating the double page
spread, even though we wanted
the theme of remembrance to be
carried on throughout our work,
we decided that the newspaper
advertisement should be
minimalistic with colours.
Although the colours are
minimalistic the war genre is
clearly portrayed in the poster due
to the key iconography that is
associated with war. The
minimalistic colours work well
here as it signifies the old fashion
era. Therefore causing people to
think of past wars (WWII)

10. ‘Radio Times’ Research
• When researching
our chosen
magazine, we needed
to find out the
measurements of the
layouts of the double
page spread (DPS) and
newspaper
advertisement.

11. Radio Times DPS Research
• We researched how Radio Times laid out their
double page spreads and tried to adapt ours
to be very similar. We did this so we remained
true to the identity of the magazine.

12. Similarities Between Print Work
Both the DPS and newspaper advertisement
were taken at the same location, on the same Metal object are the same
background which shows a clear relationship in both the double page
that both print works are advertising the spread and newspaper
same documentary. advertisement.
Both titles are of a
large font with
‘Memory’ being
slightly larger than
‘The Forgotten’ The
DPS has a contrast
of colours (black
Difference between and grey) in the title
print work is that the whereas the
newspaper advert is
DPS has the poppy. only grey.

13. Relationship Between Print Work and
Documentary
• Between all our work I think that it is clear that
the same theme of ‘remembrance’ is maintained
throughout. This was done by us using
same/similar iconography. For example the poppy
used in the documentary five minute extract and
the DPS.
• This link between the DPS and the newspaper
advertisement is also very clear as the have the
same background and also the same objects in
them with the only exception that the newspaper
advertisement doesn't have a poppy.