Evaluation Task 2 - How Effective is the Combination of Your Main Product and Ancillary Texts?

Evaluation Task 2 - How Effective is the Combination of Your Main Product and Ancillary Texts?

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My trailer opens with a fade from black to reveal my production company logo. It’s called fatal charade pictures. Fatal charade is an oxymoron and the meaning I intended was – your final performance. This is quite sinister and the red colour of the background represents the thriller genre. There’s an image of a magnifying glass with fingerprint on a white sheet of paper to connote the mystery of the trailer. The music I’ve used called Blow the Man Down starts with a low pass effect sounds distorted, then when the image of the bath filling appears it changes to a high pass effect which shows that it is diegetic. There’s a slow motion close up shot of the blood falling into the bath, this creates intrigue and confusion because the audience doesn’t know what is happening. The first intertitle appears in the Agency font with “this September” as the cross dissolve fades in the zoom of detective Barnes. When it stops zooming the camera is on an extreme close up of David’s eyes. I used a similar image in my poster.

On my poster there is an image of David’ eyes faded in with the black background. Both my Poster and intertitles in my trailer have the same colour scheme of black and white to make the product more recognisable and easier to market. Such as the black and white intertitles, the evidence picture, the newspaper titles and the clips of the candles.  My title also has the same Vinear Hand font in white with a red glow around it and my tagline is also featured across all 3 of my products which again synergizes my products and makes them recognisable.

David’s costume is a smart suited outfit with a fashionable coat. I have used the same image of him in his costume in the trailer and on the magazine cover so the audience can tell he is a detective.  I have a repetitive image of train tracks too (in all 3) which rein enforces the idea that the film will be based around this. The release date of my film is on the bottom of my poster and at the end of my trailer which says “arriving” I used this word to link up with the train theme and so it creates a motif.

I have also used the same image of the ghost throughout my products. Whilst on the magazine cover and poster she is quite small the composition makes the eye divert along the image until you get to her. On my magazine cover I wanted a white red focus rather than black and white about more as it stands more although my black and white theme is still present in for example the magazine title.

Something else that I have used between the 3 products is fading. In my trailer I used a mixture of cross dissolve and fade to blacks to blend shots together. I did a similar thing with my poster; I blended everything except the text and red stars. And on the magazine cover I blended the background images. I did this because I wanted it all to be seamless and to represent that it’s a complex storyline.

In conclusion I have used concepts of the thriller genre throughout my trailer and ancillary products as well as synergising between them.