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

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• I have made a poster for our film using the industry standard software In Design. It creates professional layouts and tools that create conventional poster that we read today. We are able to manipulate images and fonts that are supported by professional layouts.

• The whole point of creating a film poster and review is for promotional purposes- In our position as a independent film company, promoting normally proves to be difficult. It is therefore important to create a synergy between both the poster and review so people can expect what to see when they come to watch our film.

• It is important as well to establish a hybrid genre of comedy & horror as there is a large market for these types of films. I tried my best to reflect this in the designs of my poster and review

My research in to short film posters and reviews outlined that not many people make short film posters or have featured short film reviews in magazines articles. The niche market has been known to be normally not worth the effort. Most short film reviews are mainly seen online. They are normally made my amateur journalists or bloggers. Here is an example…

Here are the two ancillary texts. As you can see, they relate to each other in one way or the other. Most evident is that they both have used a very similar main image of our kid. This is the memorable moment when he opens the door to our delivery man and snatches the box out of his hand. Although he looks threatened and scared, he also has a sense of purpose and we can guess that he has dark motives.

With my film poster, I wanted to create a strong sense of enigma and also establish the genre. This can be achieved by the random items in my film posters that relate closely with the film. They include the garden hoes ( a harmless but effective tool used by Rufus our delivery man. We also have a pizza slicer and a slice of pizza, a strong motif in our film as it is centered around a delivery.

Poster• With our poster, we have established two characters,

Harry and Rufus. They relate to our film as it is clear that they are two conflicting characters. They are also both evil through the strong use of red that reflects their motives.

• For my first draft of my final poster, I hope I have emphasized my hybrid of genre. We have an extensive use of black with sinister picture grading but also the poster has humor through the caption and the random images that are not normally related to horror.

• Out of the three production companies that are involved on my poster, I believe that Short of the Week would be best be suited in distributing my film. It is known primarily for showing short, professional and high quality looking films. Although it doesn’t distribute it has been known for sponsoring films in the past.

This font is called “Tasty Drips” it relates to our main media product as it tells an audience that the film is centered around pizza- red colour relating to tomato and yellow relating to cheese! I found this incredibly effective as it is a font that can be interpreted with horror and comedy qualities by its gruesome liquidy elements.

Film ReviewThe aim for my film article was to outline a description of the film but also asses the pros and cons of the film while doing mock interviews of my self and my partner acting, the two directors and editors. My review was targeted and designed specifically for a 'Sight and Sound' audience as it is principally text with a single image

Overall, the review relates extensively to our main product as it describes in detail various shots including • The comical elements of Harry not being able to order Quattro Fromaggi as it does bad things

to his stomach• In depth description of Rufus our delivery man• The suffocation of our delivery man in cling film

Within our film, we have a synergy of ratings. We have outlined clearly that both films are at a 12 A. This is a conventional rating for comedy horrors and we base this on Edgar Wright films

Pull quote of “Home Alone Meets The Shining” is seen on my poster from this magazine review. This is a great summary our film

Star rating from our magazine “Brolly” that we have incorporated in our poster- We thought four stars was a fair offer

Mention of the co director Oliver Mould as seen in my poster on top of page

Effectiveness of main product and Ancillary Texts

• In general, both my poster and my review have combined effectively towards my media product. A Sight and sound audience does not normally have comedy horror films and an audience is more sophisticated and has a higher level of lexis, though I like this layout. It uses soft colours to enhance the naturalism and is a majority text based.

• My poster more reflects the genre of my film as it incorporates the dark colours with the sinister picture grading. It also enforces a sense of ambiguity and would entice an audience more through the rather eccentric use of images and encourages audiences to make interpretations of the film.