How effective is the Combination of your Main Product and Ancillary Texts?

I feel that the combination of our short film with our poster and magazine cover were very effective. I believe this because I know we used successful examples of real media texts to base our ancillary products on.

For example, for our magazine cover we used the real film magazine ‘Empire’ for our template. We took pictures of several different Empire magazines and said what we liked from each one, for example on each magazine we liked how the colour of text connoted a different meaning.

For example, here we said that the golden font represented royalty and pride, whereas on our front cover we used red because it is a very conventional colour to do with romance, in the same way that gold is directly linked to wealth and money.

We used a different, darker shade of red for our Headlines because we know from researching and from what ideologies we have been taught, that dark red is a very passionate, romantic colour.

For our poster we use posters from successful films with a similar run to the story such as Titanic with the love triangle and Schindler’s List with the one item in colour in a black and white film.We got the idea of our poster from 3

posters of different, but successful films, Schindler’s List, Pride and Prejudice and Titanic. Similar to the magazines, we picked things we liked from each one and incorporated it into our own

work, to make it look more professional and help it to be more successful.

The poster we used for the basic layout was the Pride and Prejudice poster (shown on the left)We particularly liked the way that the banner separated the page to show 2 different images.

The body language of the couple was something we felt was really important because we wanted to show they were in love, but we also wanted to shown that there is a twist to the story.

We used colours to darken William’s hair in the photograph so it looks like he is hiding in the dark as her dirty secret. However the passionate love can be shown thorough the way she is gazing into his eyes. The

inspiration for this can be see in this Titanic poster:

Although in this picture it appears Rose isn’t very interested, you can see the difference in their clothes and you can see she is looking away in case anyone sees her, because she is already engaged, and dating someone of a lower class was frowned upon!

However, the gentle touching of their heads and hands together shows that there is love there, just hidden.

We liked the Schindler’s list poster because, although there is so much going on in the pictures, your attention is instantly drawn to the only colour on the page, the symbolic red.

This is where we got the idea to put our red rose in with the black and white poster. We felt the idea of the little girl in the red coat on the poster is what made it successful, therefore if we used it, we had more chance of success.