Evaluation 2

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

Throughout my products there is a sense of similarity between the three.

With my magazine and poster i've used red significantly, not only for it being a horror movie but to lead the eye through each one, i feel these two are very effective as you can see the technique through both, plus the composition is the same as i have positioned the focal points on the right hand side, this immediately shows a link to both. Though the magazine front cover does to me stand out like a sore thumb, with the trailer and poster they typically portray a terrifying atmosphere with the music in the trailer and use of special effects and a picture with 'blood' upon the focal point both equally reflect a horror genre.

Yet the front cover doesn't appear to be scary, yet i had a thought that there could be a good reason why i have choosen to do it this way. Sight&Sound tend to review in an intellectual style which appeals audiences to read behind the actors/actresses/directors feelings and intentions on the movie. The use of a young person instead of a usual older person appearing on the front cover could suggest that the people who create movies are ultering so that a normal person can create a movie which appeals to everyone, instead of you typical big name director creating your gruesome expensive horror movie. Also instead of having the front cover being bloody like my poster, having it plain and normal may suggest that this magazine is going to see the other side of the creation of the movie, behind the scenes of what makes this movie significant to be choosen by Sight&Sound to be reviewed and what's so important to have a younger director.

I feel that they are all effective in there own individual way, even though the front cover doesn't obviously show that it's promoting a horror movie, from it being completely different it sort of stands out more suggesting that people are more keen onto why it isn't the same as the trailer and poster.

I think if i were to re-do my magazine frontcover i would have the title of the movie in the typeface which i originally created for my poster and trailer to atleast give it some of a link between them. Having it on the frontcover in large would immediately draw the eye, but have the rest of the text in another typceface to make the title stand out more, i would change the focal point as well, making the frontcover more appealing, possibly a closer view point from midwaist up. Giving a more intense feel as though it's personnal as we are going to explore the intention of the director.