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

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

I believe that my ancillary work is as good as the main product, and combined they create a great synergy, which sends a clear message to the audience. As you can see from this CSI: Miami poster I wanted to make my poster look similar and have the police tape going across with the detective in the foreground dominating most of the page and have a crime scene going on in the background but I wanted to add a bit more and I added a snappy one liner which is "Brace yourself for a killer film" which I think is clever as the film is based around a killer so it's a homonym because it has two meaning.






In order to promote my film I also had to make a poster. And my poster takes great inspiration from my trailer as it includes the same character and the setting is the same which helps people to know what they can expect from within the trailer/film.
In order for my poster to look realistic I spent a lot of time in research which can be shown on my blog, I researched 3 different posters which were CSI themed and I took great inspiration from those posters and based my poster on them .

My Poster and magazine front cover reflect very well what genre will be in the film trailer because of the details I put into mise-en scene for example the actor on the front cover is wearing a suit behind some police tape so we can expect a detective and a crime to be involved so we can instantly relate it to a CSI genreI also included my distributors logo on the poster so that people would see a recognizable distributor and may pay attention because of that, I also included my actors names in large writting at the top of the poster so that people would know who was in the film and also the date so people know when to expect this film to be released. I believe that my poster and magazine front cover is effective combined with my trailer as it's eye catching and would attract  the target audience.


When doing my Magazine front cover I based it around Empire magazines but I didn't want to copy all of their elements for example I copied the way the main character dominates the page and the background relates to the focus film I also copied the fact that there is some snappy quotes like Kameron Brimble has his first big case because obviously it's a crime thriller, but I didn't like the fact that there was so much on the page and looked messy so I changed that and only added a few other things to my magazine with the main focus of Convert.










As you can see in my magazine front cover I wanted to make sure that my actress dominated the page so that it would snatch peoples attention when walking by and seeing it, I also wanted to make the magazine to look like that of a real world magazine so not only did I talk about Convert but added other captions like "SciBorg's Sequel announced!" and "The Hottest new films" so that people would know what to expect from this magazine, also as you can see from my magazine I included a background of trees and I did this because the murder takes place in a wooded area so I wanted to bring some details from the film into the poster.


The main product

I decided that in my trailer I wanted to pay a great deal of attention to the mise-en scene and the setting and I knew that from doing this it would also help me in doing my ancillary tasks because then I could put the detective wearing a suit on the front of my poster and people would know the genre of my film.
The trailer I believe is done well because it's like other trailers where it shows small amounts of action so that it doesn't ruin the main plot and in the trailer the shots are very fast paced and this is done so that the audience doesn't get bored. But overall from the research I did in my ancillary tasks it greatly influenced my finished product for my trailer because it helped with things such as the costume and the props that were expected in the CSI genre.

To Conclude

I think that my ancillary tasks and my main product create a great synergy that attracts a wide variety of audiences because it's eye catching because it's bold and stands out.But not only that each of my products help to promote each other as well because if you were to see the Poster you might think that it looks interesting and would want to see the trailer or read the magazine that has the picture on the front cover so they also work together through other ways as well.