Question 2How effective is the combination of your

main product and your ancillary task?

For my Media Studies coursework we where required to create a film trailer going together with an ancillary task,

Creating a poster and a magazine cover for my film. Horror is the genre of my

film so I have put most of the codes and conventions of a horror and the unique

selling points of my film trailer into three products.

• After researching teaser trailers (Wolf Creek& Scream) which are the films I decided to look at. I learned that the colours, themes and characters all had to contribute to the effect of the film. After I created all three media products I feel all three pieces of work effectively together. I realised the colours and style of the film trailer had to be dark and gloomy.

• The text I have used on the poster and magazine re all the same, with the same colour scheme and text so that there is a direct link to each media product so the audience see the link across each media product. Each media product all include the same people which creates the effect.

• The colour scheme is black, red and white to represent ‘blood’ and ‘horror’ and this theme goes through the whole three tasks.

• My audience can see that my task are about a horror trailer and they can tell this by the effective effects and writing. I have asked my actors to wear everyday clothes in each scene, and the costume and the mis en scene are all the same, this includes all natural makeup and clothing.

• I have followed real life media products and I think that my products follow the conventions of a media product. All three tasks have a synergy throughout and I believe they look like real media products. It is obvious that the three products all belong to the same media product.

• Conventions of a movie poster• Release date• Names of the actors• Title of the film• New technologies Facebook&Twitter.• Image from key point in the trailer.

• Conventions of movie magazines.• Barcode• Image of film stars• Taglines of things inside• Issue date• Price• Competitions• Website• No more then three fonts.