My ancillary products and film reflect one another very well- they fit together well conventionally, with similar colour themes, and reflect the genre of one another being a social documentary and advertising and promoting a social documentary. Both of the ancillary products reinforce the genre because they have photos of people, and this demonstrates the fact that the documentary product itself is based around people. The magazine cover and the poster both have photos that I took. and they both contain people. They both have colour schemes and the typography reflects both the colour scheme and the documentary itself. This is done by on the double page spread it says a lot about reviewing the documentary, and on the poster it is shown with the typography.
My double page spread and advertisement help to promote the final version of the social documentary, because they all give praise to the documentary, as the purpose of them is to attract more target audience to watch the documentary, and, if it were a real media product, make more money.
Both of my ancillary products contain white typography, which keeps it fairly simplistic and natural. The combination of this with my main product is good because they both reinforce the narrative and the genre of being a social documentary.
However, I believe that if I were to criticize my work, I could make the focal images more related with the actual documentary itself, such as having photos of the interviewees themselves within the focal images of the ancillary products. I would also maybe mention more links with magazines within the documentary, to make more strong links between the documentary and ancillary products.
My products will be easily identifiable by the audience because the audience will be able to tell from the distinctive title 'pocket money', which is presented in the titles of the documentary on YouTube and in both of my ancillary products. This makes it distinguishable between this and other similar products. It can also be identified by the fact they all have the same media company on them.
The ancillary products and the documentary all meet conventions of the genre of being a social documentary and they all fit certain conventions, so in that manner I am happy with the way they ended up.
This could link with audience theory, as the target audience look for certain things with a genre. If someone was to look at the magazine cover or the poster, they would probably see it and expect the documentary to meet certain conventions, such as people releasing information about their shopping habits. And so, in this way, it links with audience theory because the expectations they would have for this sort of a film would be fulfilled.
The design and layout of all three products all fairly link together quite well- they have similar white typography, they all release certain amounts of information. The poster tells you who made the documentary, who is involved with it and stars within it, and the titles and credits release information about the distributing company etc. The magazine informs you on the title of the documentary, it informs you on who is reviewing it within the magazine, and it also tells you other information about what else is included within the magazine. The documentary releases information about the shopping and spending habits of the younger generation, and it also releases lots of information about what shops are popular. In this way, I believe the three products link very closely because they all release a lot of information, but leave it mysterious enough for the audience to still be curious.
My products are all unique enough to be distinguished between, but are similar enough for people to be able to make links between the three of them.
After extensive research into what should be included within a social documentary, magazine, and poster, I believe that I have conformed to many of these conventions. However, to a certain extent, they have their own flare but they fit within conventions quite closely. Overall, I believe the combination of my main product and ancillary products is good because you can identify the ways in which they all link. They have all been edited in a similar manner, I have tried to keep them as natural and unedited as possible, which is why none of the main product or the ancillary products have been over-edited. My audience research helped with this, because the feedback for this was that I should keep it natural in order to correspond with the ways in which a documentary should be. There is continuity between all three products.
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