Friday, 13 April 2012

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

I believe my main product and my ancillary texts work well. It helped making the film first and coming up with key ideas so that you can incorporate them into your products. The film poster definately doesn't give away to much about the film which I though was key as many of the posters almost spoil the ending and the research I done showed that you can pretty much guess the ending. My poster looks a bit like a horror film poster but that was expected as I wanted to emphasis the murderous theme in our film. The shot used of the alley is also a scene of our film so when the audience watch it they will realise that it is an important scene. Our film Cracked Secrets needed to feature in both products too, the font I have used in both of my ancillary either relates to film noir or the film. In my poster I use a typewriter font and in my review I use a font from the video game LA NOIRE. Making sure the ancillary texts relate to the film is very important so that the audience can recognise them. By having both my products quite dark and eerie relates to the film and its genre, the review uses a night time shot and a casting shadow which creates tension. In film reviews I looked at they all use a screen shot from the film, so I picked my favourite shot from the whole film. Both my ancillary texts include the colour red which we wanted to include in our film but we though black and white would be more important. In the review I use a burgandy colour and the poster I use a red colour both of these signal danger. I choose not to use black and white in my film poster because it would be boring and not catch the eye of people walking by, the colour of the bricks really stand out and so does the date.
I believe my ancillary texts work really well and they sell my main product.

No comments:

Post a Comment