2.

How effective is the combination of your

main product and ancillary texts?
In my opinion I believe that the combination of our film
poster film magazine front cover and trailer are
effective in doing its sole purpose which is to sell and
promote the film.
I feel that the use of colours and fonts used in both the
film poster and magazine coincide with the trailer
really well. We thought it would be good if we use the
same colour scheme (red gray and black) throughout.
The reason for doing this is because with most film
posters they have limited colours used (especially in
thriller posters) it is rare that you would see a colourful
film poster for most films. When deciding the colours
to use for our film we researched different colours to
see what they all meant.  
The reason for using grey as a main colour was
to make the two characters on the poster
stand out more. As the colour grey suggests
calmness boring and staid we thought this
would be a good idea so that it makes the
characters on the front cover look more
important and vigorous. This is also important
as it takes attention away from the
background and makes the two main
characters the focal point.
With the magazine front cover red is the
significant colour as it is used to grab the
reader’s attention with what is going to be
inside the magazine. Red is an exciting
energetic colour however it can also be seen
as dangerous, this is where it links in with the
trailer in the closing shots of the trailer Eric is
seen punching the camera. This shows danger
and we also left an enigma as we made it
unclear from whose perspective it’s from.