evaluation Q2 - how effective is the combination of your main product and ancillary texts

When creating our film, our main purpose was to keep the mystery of the characters, leaving the audience in suspense and making assumptions on what the narrative could actually be about. Our aim was to create enigmas through the use of our narrative, characters, genre and cast. We decided to hide the identity of each female character (main characters) by showing different facial features or body parts of the character for e.g. our first shot was focused on just the lips of the character, applying lipstick. This shot allows the audience to identify that this character is female, but revealing nothing else, leaving them baffled about what this could mean, how the character is involved within the film and their main purpose. It also allows the audience to use their own initiative of how the storyline is linked to the actions and the characters behaviour. As the trailer progresses it becomes more evident that the women are shown as being more dominant and superior to men. It creates enigma through not revealing a basic genre based teaser trailer, as it baffles the audience of why the female characters are shown with authority and powerful. It shows different shots of the characters possessions, presenting it to be a crime, romance, and thriller genre based teaser trailer. For e.g. it shows the character with red, lipstick, a gun and expensive jewellery.
From looking at the film poster you can see a development of ideas from the teaser trailer. We still decided to hide the identity of the female character. We used Holly (student from other group), took various shots using different poses and angles to show her as a powerful figure. This is also similar to our film teaser trailer as it still withholds the characteristics of the character, but still giving the impression of a superior female. The differences are that the poster only contains only one of the female characters, not revealing that there will be more women of different races with different intentions.
The audience can conclude the same information about the plot and characters from the magazine front cover as they can from the film poster; however you can further see the characters facial characteristic. The quotation “an example of why messing with the wrong women is a BIG mistake” enables the audience to realise that these women will be illustrating brutal and deviant behaviour. This promotes the film in similar ways with the film poster. Again you can see the character as being vigorous whilst smoking a cigarette in a pose showing her quite calm, relaxed and laid back. This promotional package doesn’t reveal too much and it is difficult to collect information from the film poser and magazine front cover. This pushes the audience towards wanting to watch the film and also to see what our film magazine involves.