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

I personally feel that my main task, the film noir, and both my ancillary tasks work incredibly well together. Making the film before creating either the poster or the review page was an intelligent decision as it allowed me to incorporate elements of the film, such as film stills, in the two ancillary tasks. My film poster is very well designed as, I believe, it really creates interest for the film without giving away any kind of plot or character details that might spoil the enjoyment of the viewer and therefore keeps the film shrouded in mystery and thus fitting in with the overall theme of our film. My poster follows some of the conventions of film noir, such as dark colours and urban landscapes, and the font I chose to use really fits with the genre. I chose to use a shot of the New York City skyline as that’s where our film is set. This is to only clue the audience get as to what to expect from our film.  Both my film poster and my review page use dark colours, mainly black, in order to fit with and relate to the dark, mysterious nature of our film and the genre of film noir. I used several films stills in my review page so that the audience would get a good idea of what to expect of the film but I made sure I didn’t choose any images that might spoil the ending or give away any of the plot twists. This meant I had to go through the film and carefully select which frames I was going to take a still of to use in my review page.  I have used a red colour in my film review page in order to relate to the theme of murder in our film. I did this as I wanted each ancillary task to focus on a different aspect of the film in order to have some variety rather than use the same ideas repeatedly. Overall I feel that the combination of my film and both the film poster and the magazine review page work really well.