This document discusses a student's work on creating a film trailer, poster, and magazine cover for a media coursework assignment. The student chose the thriller genre and developed ideas for their project. For the magazine cover, they included cover lines and used different fonts and a red, white, and black color scheme. The poster included a billing block with cast and crew information, and also used a simple red-focused color scheme. In filming the trailer, the student considered various shot types and carefully edited makeup, costumes, and props to achieve a horror feel. The student believes their trailer, poster, and magazine cover are effectively linked through their common use of the same actress, the color red, and consistency in style and genre elements.

1. Paige Hetherington

2. Within our A2 Media coursework studies, we were
told we were to make a Film trailer and two
ancillary tasks to accompany it. These being a Film
Poster for the trailer and also a Magazine Front
Cover. Within my group we researched several
different genres and films that belonged to these
genres. We then had several meetings helping us to
decide which genre we wanted to do and why. For
our genre we chose to do Thriller as we thought in
our own opinion that this was the most exciting.
After deciding which film genre our trailer was
going to be based on allowed us to then come up
with some ideas.

3. Magazine Front Cover
I have included cover lines on the right hand side of my
front cover as this allows the reader to clearly see
without having to pick up the magazine whats in the
contents. I have used different style fonts and texts
because this provides a variety of different looks and
looks better than it would with the same text. I have
used a basic colour scheme, not by purpose, of red
white and black because these are connotations of
blood and death. Also our masthead 'ANGEL' was
originally red so the black and white contrasted with
this well.

4. Poster
I have created a billing block which allows the
reader to see who is featured in the film and the
producers and actors within. I made this using
Photoshop because this was for me the easiest way.
Again I have a very simple colour scheme which
matches the magazine front cover also. The
masthead again is in red and this matches the red
used elsewhere in the film and links excellently
with the 'horror' genre.

5. Trailer
Within my trailer I have considered different shop
types including long, medium, pan and other shots.
We have carefully considered all mise-en-scene when
filming. The make-up and costume was carefully
edited so that the actress looked effective for the
filming that was taking place. Props used within the
trailer and other items placed in the trailer were
mostly placed purposelly to give the trailer more of a
horror feel. We also assessed the location before
shooting to allow us to see if the location was
appropriate enough.

6. QUESTION 2 - How effective is
the combination of your main
product and ancillary texts?

7. I think that both my ancillary tasks and my
main trailer go excellently together because
they show a link between both the trailer
and the two ancillary tasks. From the
research I have carried out, I have been
looking at different types of horror movie
posters and horror film magazines because
this allowed me to focus on what would
make both my ancillary tasks as professional
as possible.
Within my poster, magazine cover and
trailer I have used the same actress
throughout as this allowed you to see the
link between all 3 of my tasks.

8. Within my trailer, poster and film magazine
cover, I have used the same distinctive
colour red which I think is effective. I have
used this colour throughout because it
portrays blood, death, violence and these are
all things which go with my genre and also
with my storyline within my film trailer. The
use of the colour red is effective also because
people can see that the word Angel is
normal when you see it in white because
angels are portrayed as pure and innocent,
whereas our actress is not.
I have been using a font website to allow me
to create the text for my magazine front
cover because I found that these texts had a
much wider spectrum of fonts and especially
different horror style fonts. When
comparing the different between fonts off
Photoshop and the fonts of Fontmeme.com,
you can see a more professional look.

9. Throughout my film magazine front cover,
my poster and final trailer we have stuck to
using the same actress as we believed this
was the most effective way to show the
apparent link between all 3 of our ancillary
tasks.