evaluation activity 2

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

The three texts complement each other in advertising well, Firstly the trailer shows the audience what they can expect from this particular film, by showing small clips of semi important parts, showing characters that link to Propp's theory of the 7 characterisations, we show the hero (Emma), the villain (The Zombies), the helper/doner (Shanie) and the princess (Survival and living).

The poster that we created advertised the whole trailer very well, we used  photograph where we had someone with the zombie make-up already produced on their face, this created a good link with the trailer because of the use of the whole zombie franchise look. The way the bold text of "VIRUS" stands out works very well because the viewers eyes direct to the title straight away. The use of having company names and their rating on the side of the poster shows that we took real conventions of horror posters and produced our own, this poster and the trailer are very effective combined to each other due to the fact we kept with the same sort of colour scheme. The enigmas that the poster poses for the audience is that they could ask themselves "who is that zombie?" "where has the virus come from" and "why do these companys like this film so much, and should i go and see it?"

The magazine poster that we created worked very well, the use of a zombie hand links to the trailer and poster very well, seeing as the whole subject of this project is a zombie invasion. i think that the magazine compliments the trailer and poster because this cover is brighter and vivid, i think this works because of how dark and gloomy the trailer and poster seem to be, and with this bright magazine cover it balances the whole project out. My magazine compliments my poster due to the relation between the use of zombie body parts, i.e a zombie hand and the side of a zombie face.
The poster, trailer and magazine cover are all a very effective combination, they all go together, there are some parts that could be improved however i think all 3 ancillary texts compliment each other well.