The group created a poster and radio advertisement to promote their documentary on 6th form choices. They tested different poster designs with an audience and selected one that was most appealing. For the radio ad, they included sound effects and music to catch listeners' attention while conveying information. The ancillary texts will appear in school newsletters, libraries, magazines and billboards to reach their target audience of secondary and 6th form students as well as a wider audience. Audience screening provided valuable feedback to refine the promotional materials.

1. +
How effective is the combination of our
main product and ancillary texts?
By Tacia, Lauren and Emmanuel

2. + The Media Texts we looked at to
research our ancillary text…
Educating Essex is a more
similar documentary to our
choices, we thought of using
teachers and students in our
poster but as the audience is
mainly for students in 6th form
and year 11 we decided to use
our 6th formers overshadowing
our year 11’s.
Too poor for school is also relevant to
our poster choice as Its based around Race to nowhere is a film documentary
the students and their abilities but that focuses on the pressure of school
when it comes to Choices, Too Poor and how it affects students and what
For School is different because our teachers do to help and what they think
documentary focuses and targets of school themselves. This relates to
students who want to gain more about Choices because the poster is about
6th form life. Too Poor For School was overcoming and facing a long journey
an example of diversity and struggle ahead of school this is what year 11’s
through the lower years in which we have to cope with whether they go 6th
then mixed with 6th form. form or college.

3. + The Media Texts we looked at to
research our ancillary text… (Part2)
Radioville was one of our most helpful
source in radio advert examples, it
showed us what we could do for our
own radio advert for choices.
Its conventions for one of their
examples is where the advert lasted
45 seconds and it mentions the
channel, the voice over in the advert
explains what the show is about, they
tell the audience about the scheduling
and also have upbeat music in the
background to attract the audience by
Radio Ville is the biggest radio agency that
using cheesy catch phrases too.
does adverts for channel 4, Carphone
warehouse, nationwide and other known
organizations etc. All the ads are written and
produced by Radio Ville.

4. +
How our ancillary text appeals to
our audience…
The picture we photo shopped into a poster
took 5 viable options, we took our favorite 3
which appealed to us as a group and showed
each 3 posters in the audience screening and
the one they liked the most was the poster to
the left.
For our radio advert it had to use various sound
effects and uncopyrighted music chosen by
Emmanuel through audio.lgfl.org.uk. We felt it
appealed to our audience as it caught their
attention and made them laugh but we made
sure they remembered the details of our
documentary.

5. +
Where will the text appear?
 Our Ancillary text will appear in Secondary School/6th form and
college Newsletters across the country
 It will also appear in the school and local libraries
 We’ve also decided it will appear in magazines and billboards

6. +
Why are these formats appropriate?
 Most of our target audience attend secondary school, 6th form
or college which means putting it in a school newsletter would
be addressing the right audience.
 We also put the text in school and local libraries because we
find these are locations that our target audience visit a lot due
to school work.
 We will also put it on billboards and magazines to appeal to
audiences that outside the target audiences.

7. + What did you learn from audience
feedback?