Evaluation Q.2

2. How effective is the combination of your main product and the ancillary texts? Well obviously when we were doing a lot was based on other pieces of media, e.g: Title Sequence - http://whathappensinvegas10.blogspot.com/2010/09/fall-title-sequence.html Similar Film Analysis - http://whathappensinvegas10.blogspot.com/2011/04/similar-film-analysis-cherries.html Film Poster Research - http://whathappensinvegas10.blogspot.com/2011/02/film-poster-research_15.html Radio Trailers Research - http://whathappensinvegas10.blogspot.com/2011/03/radio-trailers_17.html Everything we have done in some form of research is all based around some form of media and how we can imitate a similar idea. For our main production the message was about drugs and that they are bad and could ruin your lives. For research I looked of statistics of miss drug use http://whathappensinvegas10.blogspot.com/2010/09/drug-overdose-statsitics-by-rachael.html this is a post on blogger on drug overdoses, the results are shocking. I think this message is one that people are trying to get across but I hope we have succeeded as it is a strong message. People result to drugs to get out of a situation, it just makes things worse. This is what we show in our film as you see Connor stumbling through his life and that he results to drugs but it doesn’t make anything easier for him, only worse. This is due to the pressure of the press, so in relatable issues the press could be a symbol of people who peer pressure others into the drugs. I think our final poster is simple but effective (https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFoOHcskM5FXoNGGN02uzhrUUQe5p7WInOmVK4jSe95OUkB0vUInmVozG-v6TNMzeVyu8oG71qZ9NJ1cqyHiACRBu_mcf-YMvHZk78rILjDH5biYEo1iWbUcjPTaBO5XL937Dm25PC8eYv/s1600/Final+Film+Poster). From the image you get the main character, if the audience find the main character appealing that could make them want to see more of him, hence they go see the film for the eye candy. It tells you all the info you need on the poster, such as the main character is not smiling or really showing any emotion just blank. This could show that the character is maybe in search of something may it be an item or something in life. The poster overall is quite dark, as the film is a drama and there isn’t a happy ending so this could portray this. The radio trailer( http://whathappensinvegas10.blogspot.com/2011/04/last-line-radio-trailer.html) certainly does as it bigs up Connor and then his voiceovers in to help promote the film but never tell too much as you don’t want the audience to know the main plot and ending of the film until they have watched and enjoyed it all. If you click on the links above you can see the research I did with other media texts. It’s just a shame that we couldn’t actually find any radio trailers, due to this we just used video trailers but only listened to them to get the feel of it being a radio trailer.