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

I believe that the combination of my product and ancillary texts are effective and work well together. To accompany our film trailer we also had to produce a film magazine front cover and a film poster, it was important to make sure that all these products related to each other. The deep red and black used through out the poster and magazine front cover connotates a violent and bloody atmosphere, they are also related to the horror genre. It also features the same image that is on the magazine front cover, in the eye on the poster, this is so that people know that they are related and can then refer back to the trailer. Also by having the three products similiar it will broaden the audience for my trailer as they will recognise the features.

As the poster has the image of the same group of girls from the trailer and the magazine front cover, the audience will want to know why they are in the eye, suggesting that they are being watched, and they will then want to watch the film to know the exact reason for this.

Without detailed research and careful planning the Poster and magazine front cover would not have been as effective and would not have matched the trailer. It is important that all three products link together as it would be classed as false advertisement.

All the images that I had taken for the Magazine and poster, were all taken on a dark background so that there were easier to cut out on Photoshop and then place onto a different background. However neither of the images were taken in the woods or in the school, like the settings in the film trailer, therefore for us to maybe get more of an effect on it having a horror genre, it would have been better for us to do this.