Audience FeedbackAncillary Products

Question 1: Do you find there is a clear link between the ancillary products and the trailer?

(poster and magazine cover)The audience feedback showed me that my ancillary products showed a clear link through the use of colour, as I kept to a colour scheme of red, black and white to connote the horror genre. They also noticed that the fonts were all similar and the name of the film was always in the same font, to make it more recognizable to people. Also I used the same sort of pictures with low key lighting and the victim covered in blood. One person said ‘the protagonist is on the covers and you can tell she is vulnerable in the trailer from what she looks like on them’ This shows the audience the genre of film and introduces them to the characters already so they will feel more sympathy.

Question 2: Do you think the poster is effective and conventional?

People found that my poster was conventional because of the way I set the information out. I put the credits and at the bottom of the poster, which follows the route of the eye in importance. They also picked out that I put the title in the middle just above the credits which is conventional to other horror film posters. The audience feedback also showed that the picture I used was effective for a horror film poster because I used low key lighting and derelict setting. Also the victim and the kidnapper is both shown.

Question 3: Do you think the layout of the magazine is effective and conventional?

The audience feedback show that people think my magazine is effective and conventional because of the picture I used. I used a close up picture of the victim with blood on her face and they said that this caught their attention and showed them that the magazine is about a horror film. Also they noticed that it followed the route of the eye in importance. They said the fonts were effective because I have used the same font for the title of the film and it looks damaged so it connotes horror.

Question 4: What was your opinion on the font used? Do you think it was conventional?

They audience said that they liked the fonts I used because it was destroyed which makes them think of horror and fear. Also the boldness of it relates to a horror film because it is a strong genre of film and will scare them. They also said that it looks gothic which is conventional to a horror film because it is often set in the olden times and is gothic and medieval because that scares people a lot.

Question 5: What were your opinions on the colours used? Did you think they were

conventional?The opinions from my audience feedback on the colour scheme, black and red, was positive. A lot of people said that the red was a good colour to use because it made them think of blood. The black was good because it is dark and connoted fear, which are both conventional to horror films. They noticed that the white stood out against these two colours for the information, which makes them notice it more.

Question 6: What did you like most about the ancillary products? (poster, magazine cover)

I asked the audience what they liked most about the poster and magazine cover and a lot of them said that they liked the pictures picture they linked together as I used the protagonist on both of them. I kept both pictures in low key lighting to connote fear and isolation, which are conventional to horror films. They said that they liked the make up of the protagonist as I put blood on her face to show that she has been in danger in the film and that it will be scary.

Question 7: What do you think I could improve on?

The audience feedback showed me that to improve on my ancillary products I could of added a little bit more detail to my poster because it had quite a lot of darkness on the image and not much writing. Also people commented that I could of make the picture a better quality to make it look more professional.