How effective is the combination of

your main products and ancillary

texts?

By Samuel Ibe-Igwe

When devising my horror trailer, my magazine and my horror poster I wanted to

create a similar link towards all three products that my audience can quickly

pick up and won’t need to instigate. The main link towards the three products is

the font used “Timeless Font” which links towards my trailer plot. Also the Font

has sharp edges at its corners which connotes that the genre of my horror

trailer is going to be a slasher/splatter. In all my three products I set the

antagonist as the main focus of all my products.

I believe that my prop the mask has being the integral link between three of my

products as the mask was what the antagonist used to hide his identity and kill

his victims. I achieved in portraying a common link in the horror products this is

to ensure the audience was able to establish that my product were of a horror

genre.

I believe the mask and the Church is representative of a horror genre for so many

reasons. Firstly the church provides a lot of religious conveyance which can bring

out the best plot and also the low key lighting is visible in my trailer which

intensifies the trailer, poster and the horror magazine. What is more, the church is

meant to be a place of worship and praise but if a church is a place of destruction

and disaster it can be portrayed as mysterious and disastrous. It is a mystery which

usually produces fear and worrying thoughts so I took it to my advantage, to also

darken it with a mask as well that was handmade by the antagonist to carry out his

killing spree.

Another way I tried to establish links between my main task and ancillary task was

through the use of my typography and color in both my poster, magazine and

trailer. I used the same typography for my horror trailer’s title, Demons within. I

implemented this so in future references I wanted my audience members to be able

to establish a common link between all of my products so it can be instantly

recognizable. I also wanted the audience to be able to link between the typography

and the horror genre in my products. For this, I used my typography of “Timeless

and Ring Bearer” which both had sharp cornered edges like a knife, connotes that

going to be a lot of blood and gore.

I believe that both of my ancillary task add a dimensional form of mystery and

suspense to my main horror task, which may provoke and be persuasive enough to

the audience to watch the film to understand and solve the mystery surrounding

the church and the mask, The fire extinguisher which the antagonist used to

brutally bash his victims brains in.

I believe the amalgamation of all the three media products is very effective in

attractive my target audience and believing that I used the right amount of horror

conventions to produce the audience a dysfunctional and unsettling experience

when watching my main horror task. Which in a future term they would make the

either purchase or view my media product as a way of diversion from their every

day life.

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