1. S A H A R A C O U S I N S
Question 4 - How effective is the
combination of your main products and
ancillary texts?

2. My Three Products
 When devising my Magazine Front
Cover, Poster and Horror Trailer I
tried to incorporate similar themes
throughout without making them all
look similar.
 For example the colour scheme for
all consisted of black, white, grey, red
and yellow.
 For my trailer and film poster I used
the same background image of the
wall.
 Also my film can be recognised by
the way I have chosen to layout my
film title. And furthermore I use the
tagline of ‘Evil Prevails’ which
features on both the Film Poster and
Magazine.
 I deliberately done this so that my
film would get recognition by the
audience as they would recognise the
film title as a logo and it also works
as a way of marketing my film.

3. My Horror Magazine
 My horror movie magazine continued
the theme of the text especially. The
letter ‘O’ in the word Chosen is shown
to have the devils symbol. His face
surrounded by two triangles.
 I didn’t want to completely imitate that
as I felt that it would be too excessive.
However, I decided that one triangle
around the antagonist’s face, along with
the other edits and techniques to make
her look scary would be obvious to the
audience that she was the evil
character, and also brings out the
theme of the film through image and
connotations.
 In psychological horrors the devil is a
popular use in relation to themes. I
believe that my image follows this code
and convention well.

4. My Three
Products
• My trailer, film poster
and film magazine all
represent a home feel.
• My trailer shows the
setting of the home,
whereas my film poster
uses the dirty wall effect
which is often used for
psychological horror
films.
• My film magazine doesn’t
bring a homely feel.
However, it does
introduce the antagonist
in an eerie but subtle way.
Nevertheless it still
carries the same the
colour scheme and font
that the horror movie and
poster carries.

5. My Three Products
 My three products also incorporate
low key lighting, especially my
Horror Magazine, which goes with
the code and conventions of the
Horror genre, which often include
low key lighting and a dark tones
which are part of the code and
conventions of the Horror Genre.
 Without this effect, for example if
my products used high key
lighting, my trailer wouldn’t follow
the code and conventions of the
Horror genre, as it may seem
happier as the lighting would be
brighter.
 I believed using the black and
white theme really expressed the
dullness and scariness of the
movie, showing that it is part of the
Horror genre.

6. Typography
 Another way I tried to establish a
relation between my ancillary texts
and my trailer was through
typography.
 The typography of my film imitates
the theme and story line of my
film, someone who is possessed by
the devil who is branded with his
mark.
 The ‘O’ in the word Chosen which
is the title of my film, is replaced
by a symbol that would be
recognised by my target audience
in which symbolises the devil.
 The letter ‘O’ also has an orangey
red flame around it. I decided to
place the orange and red colours
around the other letters to help it
stand out and continue the theme
of the film.

7. My Three Products
 I believe my trailer and two
ancillary text provoke my target
audience to want to go to see my
film as through the trailer, film
poster and magazine front cover
and also through the film title, it
gives connotations that
something bad is going to
happen. However, it doesn’t
reveal the full concept of the film.
 I believe that my three media
products in which revolve around
Psychological Horror is evident
throughout both my ancillary
texts and furthermore my in my
trailer and will definitely
encourage my target audience to
go see my film at cinema and see
what it is all about.