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

The combination of our main product and the ancillary texts went together very effectively overall. With the use of dark colours, music etc I feel the review, poster and the film linked together very well.

We made this possible with the use of genre, the shots, settings, costumes and atmosphere made the entire film thrilling and frightening. With using the horror genre you are able to use a whole series of unconventional sequences. Our group went for a dark mysterious theme with the main setting in the common woods. We went with this because the woods is always guaranteed of an spooky aura, also the light of the sun gave us some commendable shots. The colours are also a very big part of it, in both our film, poster and review they continue a dark penumbra theme. They are used to question the audience and alarm them. The fonts we used similar in the fact they are bold yet formal enough to give it a dark, solemn impression. We used the same sort of house style in all the ancillary texts and our main product, we used reds, blacks, whites and greys in all three-sticking to the dark thriller/horror theme. This also applies to the images, we used pictures from the film for the review continuing the theme, in the poster we used a picture we thought appropriate, one that related to our film but allowed us to use a different image instead of one of the main character. Overall we felt it gave a creepy almost eerie feeling.

I feel our film, poster and review links together for the target audience as it applies to both males and females of all occupations. I feel it is mature enough for people aged 15 and over, yet not too old enough so it is not appropriate for them.