Evaluation Question 2

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

The main product I had to produce was a horror film trailer alongside with a magazine front cover and film poster. The two ancillary texts go together well as they have similar layouts and colour schemes even though they are two different media products. I decided to keep the colours similar to try and develop my own house style for media products that I have created. The USP of my media products are ghosts and the Church and I believe I associate this theme in all of my 3 media products.

 My poster effectively promotes the theme of the haunted Church through the background image and the use of colours that are commonly associated with Horrors, which are red, black and grey. These same colours are used in my film magazine to create an effective combination between these two media products. The ‘Reborn’ font type and the red font colour are significant in gathering the audience’s attention, whilst the typography enhances the background image and the theme of horror connoted in the whole poster.

 My magazine effectively promotes the theme of ghosts through the image of a person’s shadow which appears to be ghostly. The red, black and grey were also used in this media product and also helps associate my magazine with the horror genre. It is easy to notice that the colour scheme between my poster and magazine are the same. As I said before I used the same colour scheme in these two media products to create a house style for my designs and so that they complement each other well. The long shot of the church on my poster and the long shot of the ghostly figure on my magazine work well together in adding an element of mystery to both media products and break the conventions of previous media products. The main feature of my magazine endorses the release of my ‘Reborn’ trailer, which is another example of how well my two ancillary texts combine.

The first link between my trailer and my poster would be the Lionsgate logo. This logo is used on my poster AND at the start of the trailer to imply that Lionsgate are helping to distribute my film poster and make it look much more professional. This is why I used the Lionsgate logo in the beginning of trailer to relate back to the poster and to keep an element of consistency between my media products

 This screenshot from my trailer illustrates that my horror trailer will be based on haunted churches. It is the establishing shot and it also relates to the image on my film poster

This screenshot also relates with my trailer’s theme of haunted churches. It can also represent the negativity surrounding the Christian religion. The nail colour of the person holding the cross implies to the audience that the Antagonist is female, which subverts the stereotype of females in horror females being weak, vulnerable and the ones who are attacked. Instead, 'Charlotte Manson' is the attacker

This final screenshot relates with our theme of the ghost (Charlotte Manson), returning from the dead and possessing one of the female characters into recreating her previous murders.

Overall, I believe the combination of my 3 media products (Trailer, poster and magazine) are effective in conveying the genre of Horror and linking the themes of ghosts and churches together. These themes are linked together mainly through the camera angles/shot compositions and colour schemes I used.