Showing posts with label C. 2 Evaluation Question 2. Show all posts
Showing posts with label C. 2 Evaluation Question 2. Show all posts

Thursday, 10 March 2011

How Effective Is The Combination Of Your Main And Ancillary Texts?
























In my ancillary texts I closely related the ideas from the trailer in to the styles of the texts, my magazine based on empire magazine depicts Lewis, our villain, dragging the pitchfork which is a direct relation to the ending shot of the horror trailer, I've chosen this link as it is a key moment in the trailer, the way that Lewis drags the fork at the end showin that even though we see an escape it clearly isn't the end, I also chose it because the shot style is typical of empire, this shot is styled to show how we know that there is a danger with a guy with a pitchfork but we don't see his face making him more mysterious.

For my poster I have taken a image of a pitch fork to use as a main image to follow the style of another slasher film, Nightmare on Elm Street, I think the pitchfork is actualy a key part to the trailer even thiough it is only in place for a brief moment at the end, but that ending shot has the potential to lead on to lots of pitchfork based killing.

Movie marketing is depends hugely on the power of the film trailer, with out that there is very little to draw a potential audience member in, therefore the trailer is crucial to its success but, magazines and posters play an important advertising role, when it comes to publicity, posters are a vital tool, as they can be placed near enough to anywhere, and with a few iconic symbols of the horror genre (a weapon, darkeness, red colour schemes) as well as key points from the trailer (the weapon used in the trailer, the tittle of the film) a fast assosciation can be made between the poster and the trailer. When it comes to the magazine, it may not be the film in question that actualy draws them in, it may be the magazine its self if they tend to religiously by the magazine once a month, this is typical of magazines such as Empire. Due to Empire having sucha huge readership, taking the front cover will boost the marketisation of the trailer. Having a front cover on such a prestigious mag allows a wide audience to see it, and selecting whoch magazine is vital to sales and distridution, purely becuase you need to select your target audience. Other promotional material may be used but mainly it is down to the use of these two mediums and the actual trailer, and having them all interlinking is vital to the success of the film.