evaluation question 2 part one: poster

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

For my poster I followed typical horror conventions, such as the main picture as the background, the title and slogan at the bottom of the page with the age rating and the character and the date release at the top. I tried to be more creative with the poster by blending two photos together of a doll featured in the trailer along with the eye of the boy in the trailer. I produced 5 posters all similar to each other to portray my trailer and making it in keeping with the theme of the trailer.

I showed these posters to friends and family and asked their opinion on them and which one is best and best in keeping with the theme and trailer and they all agreed on the one with the doll on the as the background with the eye overlapping and blending in. So this helped my decision on which one to choose.

I also followed the conventions of typical horror trailers with the colours these being dark and deep and the photos being edited to be very dark and shadowed off to enforce the horror theme. The dark colours indicate danger and evil, and this is contrasted with the off white writing which shows the pureness and vulnerability of the young boy.