Ancillary Task Research

As well as conducting our own research on teaser trailers, we also individually looked at many different film posters, websites, magazine covers and DVD covers. We were looking at the conventions of different genres and what we would need to include in our own productions to create cohesion with our main trailer and our other advertising. We created separate powerpoints of our research before coming together as a group to plan our own products.

We all took a particular interest in Empire magazine as it often advertises films of our genre on its front cover and is a high profile, big-budget magazine. We studied many of the issues that our Media Department has to offer, as well as past issues of Sight & Sound and the smaller magazines such as Little White Lies which is funded by the UK Film Council:

We decided that this magazine is one that we will particularly consider using when we create our own magazine covers as they could help a lot in improving awareness of our film and advertising due to their high profile.