Question 2. Evaluation - How effective is the combination of your main product and ancillary texts?

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

How do the advertisements fit in with our documentaries?

We made sure that within our poster advert and documentary we used the same font theme, we did this by using the website http://www.dafont.com/ and downloaded one type of theme which we found linked in with our documentary theme.

We then edited this genre into a light pink colour as we thought it was the most suitable for the topic of our documentary. We used this in both the documentary and poster so that it had a correlation between the both and we did this by editing it on Photoshop. After editing the genre colour we were then able to present it onto both of our poster and documentary. However, we used different genres of font in the title, so for the 'Worth Pain?' we used a different type of genre and used the colours that most suited it. This meant that it was different in both the advert and poster. Although, I feel that it shouldn’t have to be the same colour throughout as we found the same colours didn’t match both the poster and documentary so used the colours that we thought represented it better as its usually the font that is remembered and not the colour.

We also used the same type of font in the 'Beauty Fanatic' and two 'Surgery Patients' interviews so that they had the same relevance, it just gave a bit of information withiout again having to use the voice over to describe who the person was. This looked like this;

We also tried to peruse the same message throughout the different advertisements, this message was that "The media influences the public and makes them think differently of themselves." We made sure that the radio advert used clips of archive footage, narration and music so that it gave an insight of what our documentary was about. We also had to make sure that we didn’t use anything that wasn’t involved within our documentary as it would have been seen as 'false advertisement.’ Wee tried to make sure that our radio advert was choppy so that it used lots of short clips skipping from one another, making a more exciting theme and so that it left questions in the publics mind attracting them to watch it. In the poster we used a puppet as the main theme to try and give the message away to the public about different types of control. We also show the time of when we are showing our documentary on television which the narrator also mentions in the radio advert so that it linked together.

The music in our documentary all fit into the 'pop music genre' it had symbolic meaning so fell into the music codes and conventions. This music clearly links in with the meaning of our documentary as its lyrics linked in with the message throughout. Also this type of music is very popular to the audience we decided to use as we found out through research.

If I was to reflect on to the research of our three products I would say they all link into each other well with specific meaning, the theme worked throughout our project I think it was clear and the project followed the codes and conventions and fit in well with the genre.

We decided that we wanted our documentary to be shown on BBC3, this is because it is well known for documentaries to be shown, also according to Wikipedia BBC3's target audience includes those from 16-34, this is very similar to our target audience making it even more suitable for our documentary. We wanted our documentary 'Is Beauty worth Pain?' to finalise as a documentary series, which would have been shown every Tuesday at 9pm.