Evaluation 2- How effective is the combination of your product and ancillary texts?

When it came to creating our ancillary texts Yasmin and I both wanted to stick very closely to the genre we had chosen, we chose Yasmin to create the poster and me to create the film review. Although we were working separately on our ancillary texts we both consulted each other to make sure all our media products tied in-together and were relatable to one-another. I decided to make my film review look as close to an review printed in Sight and Sound as possible, this made my media look more professional as it looked as if my film had been reviewed in Sight and Sound magazine. In regards to the poster Yasmin and I both wanted the poster to tell the audience what genre of film it was, grab their attention and most of all intrigue them so they would watch the film. 

Both the film and poster tie in very well together, this teamed with the review makes the film look professional and surreal.

We decided that we should use dominant, striking pictures for both the ancillary texts.

Looking at Sight and Sound review pages I was able to see what type of pictures they use on the review, I found that all pictures contained the main character because of this I used one of the strongest pictures of me as the character from the film. However we also found that most surrealist posters wouldn't necessarily contain just a picture of the main character because of this we decided that Yasmin should create a new picture using different pictures from the film rather than just using one image from the film.  We decided that if our pictures weren't going to be the same that we should follow the same themes so it still looks like a franchise. All our products come together in the way that we have used all surreal images for both the film review and poster. We have also stuck with the same colour red and white, we chose red and white as they are the colours we used for the film title in the short film, this made our ancillary texts instantly recognisable.

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