Evaluation 2

Part 2 How effective is the combination of your main product and ancillary texts?

My movie poster I created for my trailer Ring Rosie is a shot of the main character standing with a gun looking into a black and white forest. This is a key aspect of a movie poster called iconography where it tells the story in a subtle way. My poster gives a subtle way of showing it is a zombie movie and actually shows shots of the actual trailer. It also shows interest & incentives where it gives you a cliff hanger of what the woman on the poster is going to do with the gun, and what the actual movie is about. Another key aspect is the style I used is the style of the black and white background; it is almost similar to the background in the similar poster for Insidious with a dark mise-en-scene and character in the front. The horror conventions of my poster and the Insidious poster are the main character/villain as well as washed out colour. As well as this the text matches the story line i.e. from the forest.

In my magazine cover the key aspects I included was the colouring of blood red and
black it really signifies the horror feel of fanzine style magazines such as Scream and Fangoria.

As well using the intertitles saying it’s the “UK’s biggest horror magazine” it gives a popular vibe of horror to the audience. I also used pictures from my trailer which I used to look like different films and added names which sound like real horror films. While Ring Rosie is the focus of the cover, I also wanted to show my magazine covered a range of similar low budget action/gory horror films.

To finish the cover, I even included a sticker at the top saying 100 favourite horror films of the 2000’s, which would draw in fans of a wide variety of horror films. Another key aspect I used was the main image of a wounded girl holding on to an axe with a hand still attached showing the zombie apocalypse is a war. Even though this is not included in the trailer it still shows the zombie feel, and makes Ring Rosie have more of an epic scale, similar to World War Z.

My magazine cover also includes a few horror conventions such as iconography with props with the axe in the main image as well as the background is blood red and black the character types such as the person in the main image could be said to be the “final girl” or a “slow moving monster” as she’s about to turn into a zombie. As well as this, the colour scheme includes reds and black to connote the theme is horror. I deliberately designed it to look dark and scary for the audience.

Movie Poster

My poster and film magazine fit into my trailer by the style of it. The magazine shows an almost empty feel as in the actual trailer it has this slow eeriness to it which follows through quite nicely in the poster. While the magazine cover has similar black/red/grey colours to the trailer and again the emptiness was intentional as it fits nicely with the mood of the trailer. As my trailer is about the people instead of the slow moving monster it gives a rare focus that is why not many jump-scares are show as well no close-ups of the face or eyes in the magazine cover. Unlike  the magazine Empire with Hell Boy’s face so you no exactly what the movie is about ( A demon)



Horror Magazine

The audience I am aiming for is around 15+ as it’s gory but not necessarily for only 18+. It could appeal to the Sight and Sound audience as well as the fanzine market because it does focus on the feminist aspect. Like the Walking Dead it follows the same view of focuses on the survivors, broadening its appeal to a mass market.