EVALUATION QUESTION 2

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

In our main production the main concept of it was to scare the audience and coax them into believing that Agnes is still alive and use psychology to keep them excited and on the edge of their seat. The main themes of our film contain drugs abuse, superstition and family relations. For our two main advertising products we chose to make a main film poster and a radio trailer both that will be seen and listened to by the public. By making these we wanted to convey the storyline through these two products in creative ways. 

Initial Research

Firstly for our poster we did some background research on the history of posters and existing ones. I decided to look into sin city posters in particular because they stood out to me because they contained the three main colours that we wanted to put into ours from our colour scheme research that i did earlier on in our product. The three main colours being red, white and black. To add to this another factor that we found was that most posters just contained one main character from the film and was featured as the biggest image on the page, a good example of this was the Gangster Squad poster that i analysed also. I also though that looking at the sin city poster material was a good idea because they are aimed towards an older audience like our film the Intruders because some of the images are quite scandalous. From researching these posters not only did it give me information of what should be on a film poster but it showed me how it needed to be spaced out and not have too many details to confuse the audience of lose their interest. 
Then to contrast this style of poster i decided to look into a film that was the total opposite and instead used graphics to achieve a more sinister look. This film poster is more suited to our genre and I think gave me inspiration of what to do to add shock factor to our poster for the Intruders. The theatre bizarre photo had blood in it and we plagiarised this in our own film poster which the spattered blood near the title. 

Our final film poster
For our film poster we wanted to  incorporate all the necessary information  such as the certificate, cast, crew and film title. In addition we included a star rating from well known trusted resources such as ‘Daily Mirror’. High rating are often how audiences establish an idea of the film and can base their decision on whether or not to go see the film on these. To make the poster we used photoshop elements by adobe to create our finished product. I didn't find it that hard to use as we did a tutorial in class to help us understand more how to use it. We decided to include all the characters on the front and edited them to make them look ghostly and faded into the background. For the background image we used a screenshot took from our film of the forest it was filmed in, because we thought it gave it an edge and we made the background dark and then used white writing to make it really stand out. 

What our audience thought of our poster?
To confirm that our poster gave off the right idea about our film we asked some people in our class what they thought by asking three simple questions.
1.What genre do you think the film is?
2.Would you go see this film after looking at the poster?
3.On a scale of 1 to 10 how professional does this poster look?
By asking people these questions we got feed back and most answers said that our film would be a horror and scored 8 out out of 10 on average. I think this was a good way to help us make any last minute improvements to our film in order to make it the most suitable for The Intruders. 

Initial Research: Radio Trailers
Another project we created was our radio trailer, before we started making it we had to do some research into it and we chose to look specifically into the Woman in Black trailer that can be heard in this link http://mp3.radio-ads.co.uk/cd/Cr01B12A5EB_128.mp3. We chose this radio trailer in particular to explore into what should be included in a horror based radio trailer we took into consideration the order of what information was delivered and the music that was played in the background. We had to take all these elements and put it into creating our own radio trailer. The main focus of creating one was to attract an audience. 

How we created our Radio Trailer? 
We decided to create our radio trailer by using final cut express and a voice over, we didn't want to give away too much of the story line and wanted to represent the genre of our film more. We decided to have Agnes breathing heavily in the beginning to create a tense atmosphere, we also thought by using Agnes' voice would be a clever way into introducing the main character without actually seeing the character. I believe that this would interest the audience and make them want to find out more. We used major sound effects such as a tree snapping and the rope sound to create a scary atmosphere so the audience know that its going to include violent and horror based qualities. Below is the finished product of our radio trailer. 
The Intruders radio trailer 

Conclusion 
To conclude our ancillary tasks i think that we achieved our aims as a group and produced a successful radio trailer and film poster.