The document discusses how the author's main film product and two ancillary texts - a magazine cover and film poster - work well together to promote and summarize the film. All three products use similar design elements like fonts, images, and colors seen in the film trailer to create cohesion and reference the horror genre. The magazine cover features the villain and knife from the trailer, while the poster includes snippets of footage also in the trailer to entice viewers and show the relationships between the products. Together the three pieces are meant to work together vertically to advertise and drive audiences to watch the film.

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

2. My Products
Magazine Cover:
Film Poster:
I think my ancillary products go well with my
main product as they all capture elements of a
horror which appears in the form of fonts used,
images used and colours used.

3. Magazine Cover
My magazine compliments my trailer well as it
features shots or characters from my film trailer.
My main image is a posed image of the villain of
my film and this is not grabbed from my actual
footage as I wanted it to be more effective. The
image was taken so that it could relate more to the
audience as he is showing the audience a knife
which was used constantly throughout my trailer.
Seeing a character which is heavily involved in my
trailer shows the relation between the two
products as any random character or director etc.
would not show the same similarities.
The text which says ‘Retribution’ uses a font which
is distributed across all my products. The font I
used I got from www.dafont.com and it appealed
to me a lot as I am also part of the target audience.
The font also can be associated with the genre of
horror as I had got it from this category on the
website.

4. Film Poster
My film poster is a good promotion for my film and
works especially well with the trailer to persuade my
audience to watch the film. My film poster contains
snippets of my film in the poster which also appear in
the trailer. These images I used are some of the most
effective shots in my trailer. The first image which is
the first from the left creates effect as it shows the
villain which also appears in the magazine and
multiple times in the trailer. This image is meant to
create fear as we see him attempting to kill someone.
The block of flats behind them represent my urban target audience. My second image shows
a shocked or scared face which may connect with the audience in them trying to find out
what she is scared of. My third image is of a girl with her mouth covered and eyes open
wide. The red tape around her mouth connote danger and may create a sense of fear within
the audience. The last image is not a snippet from the film however this is the main
character of the film and has a huge appearance in the trailer. The image is of him staring
straight at the audience with a mysterious look hiding something that the audience would
want to find out.

5. Links to Teaser Trailer
Both of my products I made were a reflection of my teaser trailer is I
made sure that whilst I was creating them was constantly watching the
film trailer trying to get some inspiration. On all my products I used quite
a bit of red. For example on in my trailer the title sequences are based on
a read background, I have some red text on my magazine and the stars
on my poster are also red, I used the colour on all of these so that I was
able to represent danger within my products.
I also used the colour white throughout all my products as I think this
colour is a colour that can create a sort of ghostly effect which
corresponds with the genre of my film. This was used on the coalition
font that I talked about earlier which was also present throughout the 3
of my products.
However my two ancillary products used a sort of blue colour scheme
and my main product used a sort of blue saturation which was darkened.
I used this blue effect on my products to challenge conventions but also
because research told me that it could be associated with the blue skin
colour which is often associated with death.

6. Continued
My film trailer functions as an advert which I believe is a communication which is
used to persuade the audience to take action which is of course to watch my film. I
desire to drive my audiences behaviour with this commercial offering.
My two ancillary products also support this through the way I have represented my
film. My three products together work in a vertical plane as one is a video, another is
a magazine cover and the other one is a film poster. Which shows the inter texuality
between my three product.