question 2 media presentation
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How effective is the combination of your main
product and ancillary texts?
Question 2:
My poster
My magazine front cover
At the beginning of my film trailer, we have a
long birds eye view shot of Ella scrubbing the
floor. As Cinderella is a well known fairy tale
involving a ‘glass slipper’ my audience will hopefully make a
connection between the scenes of Ella scrubbing
the floor as Cinderella does and the shoe on the front of my poster.
This image shows the contrast between Ella when she is living with her auntie, and when she falls in love and begins to really ‘live.’ Although before watching the film the audience would not know this, the glamorous shoe on the film poster suggests that some form of glamour (her boyfriend) will enter her life and change it for the better. These enigmas will hopefully entice the audience to watch the film.
Links between My film poster and Film trailer screenshots
When comparing this shot and the magazine front cover we can see that the
girl in the screenshot is unrecognizable on the front cover. This is because I want the
audience to feel they are being given a sneak peek into the actresses life, which is
why I have used the words ‘exclusively reveals her secret’ to show this.
Links between My film magazine front cover and Film trailer screenshots
The fact that in my film trailer we see the boy and girl bumping into each other raises the enigmas that they may be about to fall in love, especially as this long two-shot pan shows them bumping into each other when they least expect it, followed by a shot-reverse-shot of the couple close-up, to emphasize their instant attraction to each other. This links to the background image of love hearts in my film trailer titles which omits the clue of the romantic genre, whilst the love hearts and swirly writing on the poster also supports these things. I believe the fact that everything links together will benefit the audience as they can clearly identify the genre as well as some of the plot by looking at the iconography and typography before even being played the film trailer and having the aid of sound, dialogue and video.
Links between my film trailer, iconography and typography
Links between fontsAs my film is a teenage, girly
romance, I decided to conform to conventions such as flouncy
font, which can give the impression of a girl scribbling
about her lover in her diary etc. Therefore, as well as using italic
‘handwritten’ font in my film trailer titles, I also used the
same style of font on my film poster and magazine front
cover. I believe by doing this I have created a clear link
between all three of my products as they are all similar, while
clearly displaying the genre to my target audience.
The addition of small love hearts on my text on the film poster links to the wording of the film trailer titles, ‘experience the magic of love,’ therefore both products clearly show my genre and the plot of the film.
Links between coloursAs you can see, there is an obvious colour scheme within all three of my products, consisting of pink, red and purple. All of these colours contain
connotations of love, romance and lust. The pink is more of a flirty, romantic
colour which reflects the genre of a teen romance as well as the innocence of
the protagonist which is why I believe it worked well on my film poster, as well
as being the main font colour of my titles. However, the deep shades of
pink-red I used on my magazine front cover represents more of love and
passion, which is why I have used it to represent the actress, to show that maybe she is more mature than her
character while still linking to the iconography and genre of the film.