How effective is the combination of your main product and ancillary texts?
I believe that my main product is effective in the way that it would draw people in to want to watch it due to our unknown story-line. When we created our trailer we did have a full idea for the piece but we wanted people to not really understand the concept of it to an extent so that they will want to go and see the full film. This trailer may not be as gripping and as powerful as we may have once wanted it to be but I do believe that our trailer does give a certain effect wanting to know what is going on within in the trailer and how all the different shots connect to each other.
When we filmed our trailer we had the shots of the computer, these shots were quite important for our full film idea as you may have guessed from the title ‘.Com.’ We also had the religious shots which shows the killers story to a certain extent and hopefully after watching this trailer people will want to see how these two things are connected and why the killer is doing what he does.My ancillary texts don’t really show anything to do with the story other than a part of the killers face however I still think that they both give off a strong effect. I used the same image for my poster and magazine cover, but I changed a few things to the image so they weren't the complete same, I did this because I believe that it was a strong image, an image that would get people to want to see the story behind this dark and gloomy picture.
I believe that the combination of my products do work together and also will want to make people want to see the film. I think that my ancillary texts will make my audience want to see the trailer, due to the obscurity of my main image, then will go on to watch our trailer and as I have previously wrote will want to see how the film will come together and what will all of the shots that were filmed end up resulting in.
When creating my ancillary texts i had this in mind, i wanted to keep the obscure theme of the trailer when i did my movie poster and my magazine cover. I can understand how this may not bring in much of an audience as i have found out from the student feedback that we have collected but i like the idea of not really knowing what is going on and keeping everyone wondering until the film is released.
More ways in which my ancillary texts and trailer are connected are that they both briefly show the killer. My poster and magazine cover both have a slightly distorted look on the image which happens to be the killer, you wouldn't be able to tell who it was if your saw them out in the street. My trailer also shows hidden shots of the killer where his hood is up and the shots we have with the killer in them have been either shot in a dark place or have been made darker in the editing stages after we made our trailer.
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