The ancillary tasks of a magazine cover and poster effectively promote the film trailer. Both include an image of the main actor wearing similar clothing to the trailer to create consistency. The same text, color scheme, and fonts are used across the trailer, magazine, and poster to clearly link the materials together. The lighting and costumes of the main characters in the poster photos match those used in the trailer scenes. Key elements like dialogue excerpts and character placements help tell the story and draw connections between the ancillary tasks and the main trailer.

1. 3. How effective is the combination of your main and ancillary task?

2. The ancillary task effectively helps promote the trailer; both magazine front cover
and poster have an image of our main actor which stands out on the page. Magazine
front cover has the same text of ‘The Trap’ as in the trailer and poster which shows
similarities between all three media creations. The same text and colour scheme has
been used in both the ancillary tasks. The pictures in the ancillary task and main task
are of the actor wearing the same clothes as in the trailer, to make sure it looks more
like a real media example (e.g. Andrew Garfield wearing a Spiderman costumer or
Johnny Depp wearing Pirates of the Caribbean costume on a poster or magazine
front cover).

3. We used red, black and white colour scheme on our film front cover; black and white are conventional
colours that are used in many magazines. Whilst the colour red was not a predominant colour in our trailer, it
is associated with my gang ‘type’ films. We kept the colour limit on our trailer, to three, as that is a usual
maximum on front cover magazines. The magazine colours reflect the type of genre our film is based upon,
quite dark and mysterious. Due to the film, The Trap, being not a ‘cheerful’ trailer it was most appropriate to
use dark colours.
The writing on the magazine front cover stands out on the page and the ‘film real’ shows parts of the clips
from our trailer. The pictures from the trailer help the audience to engage more with it and then have an urge
to find out more. On the magazine, there are many codes & conventions from real magazines, such as a ‘pug’
and ‘the chance to win a prize’. The magazine helps to give the audience an insight into the main character of
our trailer is and helps to boost the reputation, a strapline at the top of our trailer helps to do this; it states
‘Interview with The Trap star, Seni Adams’.
Due to our trailer being mostly filmed on ‘dark’ and ‘cloudy’ days, it seemed
suitable that we included an element of grey within the background, in the
similar form of clouds. With this, we wanted to create a link between both
projects.

4. The poster is dark and mysterious, just as the trailer demonstrates. As I was
in charge of taking the photographs for the ancillary task, I used lighting
that wanted to compliment the trailer well. For example, half of the main
actor’s face is in bright light whilst a half of it is presented in ‘dark format’.
One of the main initial reasons this was done was to emphasise how
originally he was a ‘good person’ but then needed a job and turned to
‘selling drugs’. Behind the main actor is the antagonist, it shows he is
‘lurking behind him’ and is potentially ‘in his shadow’ by watching his every
move.
The picture of the antagonist was also taken in the studio by me; the picture
had the same lighting and costume as shown in the trailer. The poster
contains the protagonist and antagonist which help to tell the audience who
the most important characters are. One of the phrases “they call it The Trap
for a reason” is part of the dialogue, setting the scene for the audience, at
the start of our trailer. This cleverly links from the poster to the film trailer,
as a section of the dialogue used at the start of the trailer is featured on the
poster. From the magazine and poster ancillary tasks, the audience will be
able to notice who the protagonist is immediately. For example, Seni our
main actor is placed in front of the antagonist in the poster. Also, he
features directly in the centre of our magazine front cover.

5. The poster is dark and mysterious, just as the trailer demonstrates. As I was in charge of taking the
photographs for the ancillary task, I used lighting that wanted to compliment the trailer well. For
example, half of the main actor’s face is in bright light whilst a half of it is presented in ‘dark format’.
One of the main initial reasons this was done was to emphasise how originally he was a ‘good
person’ but then needed a job and turned to ‘selling drugs’. Behind the main actor is the antagonist,
it shows he is ‘lurking behind him’ and is potentially ‘in his shadow’ by watching his every move. I
also took the picture of the antagonist in the studio; the picture had the same lighting and costume
as shown in the trailer.
The poster contains the protagonist and antagonist that help to tell the audience who the most
important characters are. One of the phrases “they call it The Trap for a reason” is part of the
dialogue, setting the scene for the audience, at the start of our trailer. This cleverly links from the
poster to the film trailer, once again, demonstrating that they are linked together. From the magazine
and poster ancillary tasks, the audience will be able to notice who the protagonist is immediately. For
example, Seni our main actor is placed in front of the antagonist in the poster. Also, he features
directly in the centre of our magazine front cover.
The poster also contains the same font as shown in the
trailer and magazine front cover of presenting the words
‘The Trap’. This shows that all three media items are linked
together. Dark colouring, a main big main image of the actor
and the same font helps to link all three different media
products, together. Both the film trailer and poster contain
the actor names and logos, which show similarity between
the two projects. This therefore chains both projects
together and reflects one-another.