Question 2: How effective is the combination of your

main product and ancillary texts?

Our ancillary texts and main product worked well to create a realistic promotional package of our film. We used the conventions of sci-fi in our product to make them effective and allow the audience to recognise the genre. The main aims of our ancillary texts and the main product were to promote the film and the use of conventions to make the genre clear

Our ancillary texts and main products were an effective combination as they have similar themes running throughout them, as well as linking to the sci-fi genre. Our products capture the genre of sci-fi through the colour scheme, font, alien eye effect and the main character appears across all of them.

Colour schemeThe use of green and black is prominent through both out ancillary text and main product. The black background of our poster and magazine cover constants with the green font.

We have used the same for our poster and trailer, which will allow the audience to recognise it throughout.

We have also used this colour scheme in our production logo and when our title appears in our trailer, however we used a white font to contrast with the black and green background.

Alien Eyes The use of the main character on our poster having one alien eye

and one human eye links with the narrative of the film, she is two different characters, her natural self is hiding from the human world in order to fit in, we see her as an outsider.

The alien eye is recurring theme throughout and therefore the audience can see it is a very important feature in the film.

The trailer also displays the idea that she is a stranger. When creating our poster, we wanted the audience to be able to recognise the alien eye from the trailer and create the link between the two.

This is an effective combination as it uses the convention of our sci-fi theme as well as creating similarities that link our products together.

Font We used the font ‘space age’ from dafont.com on both our poster and our

trailer, this creates association with the two and links them together our magazine cover, like the poster and the trailer as the same theme of neon green. This makes our entire promotional package link together effectively as the audience will see the clear theme and the green we are presenting.

Character As our main character appears on both the

magazine cover and the poster. It allows our audience to link the two together, meaning that they will become more familiar with her face. Many films do this, to promote the film or new actress which increases interest for the audience.

Our main actress is shown throughout our trailer, this makes it clear to the audience that she is the main character and the story revolves around her.