Post 24: Evaluation Questions & Tasks (Question 2: Combination of main product and ancillary texts)

Question 2 - How effective is the combination of your main product and ancillary texts? 


The two screen grabs from our short film features both of our main characters alone. I believe this to be an important point as we produced a poster featuring a face made up of a man and woman that was based around the looks of both Sammi and Connor. By having both sexes photograph in the poster it reveals they are on equal level of importance in the film. It also could attract a larger audience due to their wanting to find out the real characters and the relationship they have. I find the poster to work effectively with the film as it entices the audience to come and find out more about the main characters, it also hints at the importance of the male within the film.



The screen grab to the left I believe shows exactly how well the short film and review combined was very effective and powerful for audiences. The photo is the dominate feature in the review as it features both main characters (like the poster featured both sexes), also because it takes up such a large amount of space in the review it is the first thing our audience see. I believe the review gives a detailed description of the film without giving the cliffhanger away, it has an enticing photograph from the short film so I believe this would grab an audience interest.


Overall I believe the combination of our main product and ancillary texts were very effective and would grab audiences interests. Behind Blue Eyes - which the audience would recognise and remember due to the  name appearing large and bold throughout every piece in an interesting text, I believe our group has advertised well and when I asked for my target audiences opinion about the combination I received positive feedback only criticising the lack of actors real faces in the poster. They said they liked how the review had an interesting screen grab from the film and how both the review and poster feature both a male and female. The only changes I would make if possible would be to incorporate our actors into the poster, however I believe the rest of the information and projects work well together.